{"id":309,"date":"2014-01-17T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/where-religious-hostility-is-on-the-rise.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T15:23:54","slug":"where-religious-hostility-is-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/where-religious-hostility-is-on-the-rise.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Religious Hostility is on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NoxmqSuVwKM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The BBC video above\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/lutherant\/2013\/02\/religious-intolerance-the-global-picture\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">and \u00a0the Pew chart below show<\/a>\u00a0you which areas of the world have the most government restrictions toward religion and which societies have the most social restrictions. This all comes from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2012\/09\/20\/rising-tide-of-restrictions-on-religion-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">study form the Pew Center for Religion and Public Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study shows and \u00a0the video highlights the fact that hostility toward religion is at a six-year high. That hostility happens the most in Egypt and China.<\/p>\n<p>In other countries, society itself is hostile to certain religions. Pakistan, as the chart below shows, is the most hostile.<\/p>\n<p>Which religions are harassed the most? Coptic Christians in the Middle East and Muslims in Burma are among the most harassed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JjQdRcrp5Y8\/Utk4nReMShI\/AAAAAAAAFHQ\/UAtntg1iCGw\/s1600\/graphic.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JjQdRcrp5Y8\/Utk4nReMShI\/AAAAAAAAFHQ\/UAtntg1iCGw\/s400\/graphic.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PlskKWXVo1Y\/UtmsnrzFwVI\/AAAAAAAAFHg\/IR1KgziS9qw\/s1600\/government+restriction.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/files\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PlskKWXVo1Y\/UtmsnrzFwVI\/AAAAAAAAFHg\/IR1KgziS9qw\/s1600\/government+restriction.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/a><a style=\"clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i6w9g5gojss\/UtmtdX1qYAI\/AAAAAAAAFHo\/FGAqztHSIBQ\/s1600\/socila+haras.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i6w9g5gojss\/UtmtdX1qYAI\/AAAAAAAAFHo\/FGAqztHSIBQ\/s1600\/socila+haras.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC video above\u00a0and \u00a0the Pew chart below show\u00a0you which areas of the world have the most government restrictions toward religion and which societies have the most social restrictions. This all comes from a study form the Pew Center for Religion and Public Life. The study shows and \u00a0the video highlights the fact that hostility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where Religious Hostility is on the Rise<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The BBC video above\u00a0and \u00a0the Pew chart below show\u00a0you which areas of the world have the most government restrictions toward religion and which societies\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/where-religious-hostility-is-on-the-rise.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where Religious Hostility is on the Rise\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The BBC video above\u00a0and \u00a0the Pew chart below show\u00a0you which areas of the world have the most government restrictions toward religion and which societies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/01\/where-religious-hostility-is-on-the-rise.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World Religions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-01-17T17:27:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-27T15:23:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2014\/01\/hostility.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"271\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"George G. 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