(RNS) Religious believers throughout the world face a rising tide of restrictions, according to a study released Thursday (Sept. 20).

In the one-year period ending in mid-2010, 75 percent of the world's population lived in a nation with high or very high restrictions on religious beliefs or practices, according to the study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Pew tracked religious freedoms denied by government and cultural authorities.

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