Pew: Christians Still Most ‘Harassed’ Religious Group in the World

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By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. | 12 November 2020

BREITBART — Christians are harassed in more countries than members of any other faith, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.

In its report, Pew found that Christians undergo harassment in 145 out of 198 countries in the world, a higher number than for any other single religion. In second place were followers of Islam, who experience harassment in 139 countries, Pew revealed.

In its comprehensive study for 2018, the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available, Christian persecution was significantly higher than for any other year since Pew began its study in 2007. Ten years earlier, in 2008, Christians underwent harassment from governments, groups, or individuals in just 95 countries, 50 fewer than in 2018.

In its definition of harassment, Pew included a wide range of actions – “from verbal abuse to physical violence and killings” – motivated at least in part by the target’s religious identity. […]

1 Comment on Pew: Christians Still Most ‘Harassed’ Religious Group in the World

  1. Naturally, Breitbart, the ZioShill of ZioShills, did NOT mention Christian persecution in Israel! Because Breitbart does not care about Palestinian Christians, and does not care to know that more and more Israelis are converting to belief on Christ, thanks to One for Israel Ministries and others (who also work with Palestinian Christians AND Muslims too (only Israelis call them “Arabs.”) Steven Ben-Nun and his wife, Jana, Christians who converted from Judaism to belief on Christ in Israel, were persecuted there and had to come to the US. BTW, Ben-Nun was once a member of Hasidim and Ultra-Orthodox Christ-hating Talmudic Chabad Lubavitch!

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