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August 10, 2011

Fox: Religious harassment on rise throughout the world, report finds

by Staff
Fox News

Worshippers are under attack in more countries as governments crack down on religion, and social hostilities grow, according to a new report.

The report, by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, looked at statistics and government data spanning from 2006 to 2009, and uses such criteria as government crackdowns on religion and social hostility, including religious-motivated bias, beatings and murder, to determine which countries were the least tolerant to religion.

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