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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
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(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:24PM (1 child)
Thanks for the study link. It's one in a series of very strange medical traditions that continued into recent years. To this day, many older physicians don't bother even giving a local anesthetic to an infant before circumcision, despite the fact that safe practices for doing so have been known for decades, with extremely low risk for adverse effects. This practice is basically a holdover from the older belief that pain to infants doesn't matter... Except it does. (Subsequent studies have shown longer -term behavioral differences in infants who have been circumcised without any pain relief, as well as higher risks of complications afterwards, probably due to the shock the extreme pain sends their systems into.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21 2017, @12:30AM
Apparently most parents had no idea, but if a mother did find out they weren't using anesthesia and complained... they would call her insane or report her as an abusive parent. WTF?
http://www.recoveredscience.com/ROP_preemiepain.htm [recoveredscience.com]
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.1986.tb01024.x/abstract [wiley.com]