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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Morning graph: Religious Oppression by Country

From the Pew Forum's study, Global Restrictions on Religion:

This chart shows how the world's 25 most populous countries score in terms of both government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion. Countries in the upper right have the most restrictions and hostilities. Countries in the lower left have the least.

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64 nations – about one-third of the countries in the world – have high or very high restrictions on religion. But because some of the most restrictive countries are very populous, nearly 70 percent of the world’s 6.8 billion people live in countries with high restrictions on religion, the brunt of which often falls on religious minorities.

You can [Download the report .pdf] or read it online.

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