WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- More than two-thirds of the world's population lives in countries where restrictions on religious beliefs and practices have increased, a U.S. report says.

The report. released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, found more than 2.2 billion people live in countries where government restrictions on religion or social hostilities involving religion rose "substantially" between mid-2006 and mid-2009.

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