Rising Restrictions on Religion

Rising Restrictions on Religion - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: According to Rising Restrictions on Religion, a recent report by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life, several countries with increasing restrictions on religion are very populous, however, the increases affect a much larger share of people than of states. More than 2.2 billion people – nearly a third (32%) of the world’s total population of 6.9 billion – live in countries where either government restrictions on religion or social hostilities involving religion rose substantially over the three-year period studied.