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posted by on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the natural-enemies dept.

Government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion increased in 2015 for the first time in three years, according to Pew Research Center's latest annual study on global restrictions on religion.

The share of countries with "high" or "very high" levels of government restrictions – i.e., laws, policies and actions that restrict religious beliefs and practices – ticked up from 24% in 2014 to 25% in 2015. Meanwhile, the percentage of countries with high or very high levels of social hostilities – i.e., acts of religious hostility by private individuals, organizations or groups in society – increased in 2015, from 23% to 27%. Both of these increases follow two years of declines in the percentage of countries with high levels of restrictions on religion by these measures.

Among the world's 25 most populous countries, Russia, Egypt, India, Pakistan and Nigeria had the highest overall levels of government restrictions and social hostilities involving religion. Egypt had the highest levels of government restrictions in 2015, while Nigeria had the highest levels of social hostilities.

Global Restrictions on Religion Rise Modestly

Does this reflect your personal experience ?


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  • (Score: 2) by bradley13 on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:36PM (5 children)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:36PM (#496892) Homepage Journal

    Religion needs to go

    Perhaps, but not by government mandate. Governments pushing individual behavior underground just doesn't work. See the "war on drugs" in the US for a stunning example of failure.

    Want religion to wither? It is already doing so nicely in the West, simply due to decent living standards and education. If your life here and today is decent, you don't have to hope for some phantom paradise later.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:49PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 20 2017, @03:49PM (#496901) Journal

    Religion is withering so nicely and becoming so insignificant in the west that 83% of professing Evangelical Christians voted for the present administration. An administration that wants to filter incoming refugees by religion by disguising that filter with some other label.

    Personally, I do have hope for paradise later, but that doesn't stop me from wanting decent living, education, health care, etc in the here and now. So I don't seem agree with that other 83%.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:00PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:00PM (#496905)

      I always knew you were an idiot.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:04PM (#497061)

        Paradise is relative, some people will accept "decent jobs, education, and healthcare" as paradise compared to the shitshow we've got now.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:42PM

      by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:42PM (#496928)

      The USA is not like the rest of the west. It's a lot like Turkey compared to the EU.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:37PM (#496992)

      Religion is withering so nicely and becoming so insignificant

      Except for Jews, of course.

      I do have hope for paradise later, but that doesn't stop me from wanting decent living, ...

      The fact is that the Jews are responsible for taking away your decent living, education, health care, ...

      They make you pay for what is (and should be) already yours, so you keep working harder and harder but never quite make it.