41 countries ban religion-related groups;

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

41 countries ban religion-related groups; Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baha’is among the most commonly targeted

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/15/41-countries-ban-religion-related-groups-jehovahs-witnesses-bahais-among-the-most-commonly-targeted/

 

Government restrictions on religion take many forms around the world. Particularly restrictive governments often limit religious expression by banning certain groups – including entire faiths, social movements or political organizations that have ties to religion.

In fact, 41 countries – or around a fifth (21%) of those evaluated – banned at least one religion-related group in 2019, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of laws and policies in effect in 198 countries in 2019, the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available. Jehovah’s Witnesses and Baha’is were among the most frequently banned groups.

The Middle East-North Africa region had the highest share of countries (55%, or 11 out of 20 countries in the region) with bans on religion-related groups in 2019. Asia and the Pacific – the largest region in the study, with 50 nations – had the greatest number of countries with bans (17 out of 50 countries, or 34% of the region). Sub-Saharan Africa had eight countries with bans (representing about 17% of the 48 states in the region), Europe had three (or about 7% of the region’s 45 countries) and the Americas had two nations with such bans in place (representing about 6% of the region’s 35 countries).

This analysis is based on the Center’s most recent restrictions on religion report, which examines the extent to which governments and societies impinge on religious groups and practices. Data is collected from a wide range of sources, including the U.S. Department of State’s International Religious Freedom reports. For the purposes of this analysis, the term “banned” refers to official prohibitions that prevent a group from legally operating in a country.

Bible prediction coming true it seems, as world conditions continue to worsen. 

 

[Arauna]

21 hours ago, Patiently waiting for Truth said:

Baha’is

They are banned in Muslim countries but they are high on the list of the United nations.  It is one of two groups highly favored by the UN. Both have shrines in the UN building: the theosophists (a spiritistic type religion) and Bahai - which believes that all religions are good!...

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

2 hours ago, Arauna said:

They are banned in Muslim countries but they are high on the list of the United nations.  It is one of two groups highly favored by the UN. Both have shrines in the UN building: the theosophists (a spiritistic type religion) and Bahai - which believes that all religions are good!...

Yes I did a little bit of reading about the Bahai.

The Baha’i world view

Baha’is are strongly encouraged to promulgate their own religion and seek to alert the wider world to the imperative needs for global unity. As the Baha’i community has expanded, establishing itself globally, the Baha’is have increasingly become more socially engaged, working (often with sympathetic others) to establish programmes for education, literacy training, the empowerment of women and minority groups, and health and community development. They also support the work of the United Nations, seeing its purposes and activities as broadly overlapping with their own. As such, the Baha’i message is not for the Baha’is alone.