Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations...

Egyptians due to the persecution by the religious establishments, and its resulting social stigma against publicly identifying as non-religious, along with a...

Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution, racism...

S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has documented official and ongoing religious persecution, religious-freedom violations against the Laotian...

Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began during the reign of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina...

Baháʼís, who took refuge in India from religious persecution in Iran. After the advent of Islam, when religious bias against the non-Islamic sects began...

the government census of latest 2014. The Muslim population faces religious persecution in Myanmar. Around 800,000 Muslim Rohingyas live in Burma with around...

pagans are a religious minority in every country where they exist and have been subject to religious discrimination and/or religious persecution. The largest...

rights groups recorded "no recent reports of persecution, discrimination, or imprisonment on the basis of religious convictions or affiliation." However, terrorist...

of religious persecution or religious discrimination. In recent years, terms such as religism and religionism have also been used, but "religious discrimination"...

atheistophobia, or anti-atheism, both at present and historically, includes persecution of and discrimination against people who are identified as atheists....

societies practice religious favoritism. Such favoritism is frequently accompanied by religious discrimination and religious persecution. According to the...

of persecutions of offending and nonconforming religions. In the early 3rd century, Cassius Dio outlined the Roman imperial policy towards religious tolerance:...

been an influential and increasing factor in the persecution of and discrimination against religious minorities in Pakistan, such as Hindus, Christians...

laity. The laity were subject to poor economic conditions and anti-religious persecution, while their hierarchy enjoyed very good relations with the state...

individual. The intolerance, and even the active persecution of religious minorities (sometimes religious majorities as in modern Bahrain or the Pre-Dutch...

world view, was accompanied with official claims that there was no religious persecution in the USSR, and that believers who were being targeted were for...

official state religion. In 2023, the country was scored zero out of 4 for religious freedom. In the same year, it was ranked as the 8th most difficult place...

The persecution of Christians from 1989 to the present is part of a global problem of religious persecution. Persecution of Christians in this era is taking...

the Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals, and political enemies. Nazi persecution escalated during World War II and included: non-judicial incarceration...

Hindus have experienced both historical and ongoing religious persecution and systematic violence, in the form of forced conversions, documented massacres...

Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States were "the principal victims of religious persecution … they began to attract attention and provoke repression in the...

on persecution and tolerance Islam and other religions Multifaith space Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance Religious discrimination Religious intolerance...

often adapted to African cultural contexts and belief systems. Abrahamic religious beliefs, especially monotheistic elements, such as the belief in a single...

The official persecution of religion took place through many legal measures which were designed to hamper the performance of religious activities, through...

Religious violence in Nigeria refers to Christian-Muslim strife in modern Nigeria, which can be traced back to 1953. Today, religious violence in Nigeria...

against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide. There have been reports...

free within the bounds of law in the exercise and performance of their religious rights. No law shall contravene the tenets and provisions of the holy...

confiscated during the persecution. In Italy in 306, the usurper Maxentius ousted Maximian's successor Severus, promising full religious toleration. Galerius...

The persecution of Zoroastrians has been recorded throughout the history of Zoroastrianism, an Iranian religion. The notably large-scale persecution of...