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The share of countries with a high or very high level of social hostilities involving religion reached a six-year peak in 2012, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
A third (33%) of the 198 countries and territories included in the study had high religious hostilities in 2012, up from 29% in 2011 and 20% as of mid-2007. Religious hostilities increased in every major region of the world except the Americas.
The sharpest increase was in the Middle East and N...orth Africa, which still is feeling the effects of the 2010-11 political uprisings known as the Arab Spring.1 There also was a significant increase in religious hostilities in the Asia-Pacific region, where China edged into the “high” category for the first time.
Keep in mind that China is planning on implementing a persecution campaign against all house churches in China as part of it's 'Phase III' program to rid China of religious people who refuse to join it's state controlled authorized religions.
Religious Hostilities Reach Six-Year High | Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project
A third (33%) of the 198 countries and territories included in the study had high religious hostilities in 2012, up from 29% in 2011 and 20% as of mid-2007. Religious hostilities increased in every major region of the world except the Americas.
The sharpest increase was in the Middle East and N...orth Africa, which still is feeling the effects of the 2010-11 political uprisings known as the Arab Spring.1 There also was a significant increase in religious hostilities in the Asia-Pacific region, where China edged into the “high” category for the first time.
Keep in mind that China is planning on implementing a persecution campaign against all house churches in China as part of it's 'Phase III' program to rid China of religious people who refuse to join it's state controlled authorized religions.
Religious Hostilities Reach Six-Year High | Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project