LIST OF 50 COUNTRIES WHERE CHRISTIANS ARE MOST PERSECUTED – REPORT BY OPEN DOORS USA
- NORTH KOREA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Communist and post-communist oppression
POPULATION: 25,727,000
CHRISTIANS: 300,000
MAIN RELIGION: Atheism/traditional beliefs
GOVERNMENT: Single-party dictatorship
LEADER: Chairman Kim Jong-un
- AGFANISTAN
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Clan and ethnic antagonism
CHRISTIANS: Thousands
GOVERNMENT: Islamic Republic
POPULATION: 37,209,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: President Ashraf Ghani
- SOMALIA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: A few hundred
GOVERNMENT: Federal republic
POPULATION: 15,636,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmajo”
- LIBYA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 36,200
GOVERNMENT: Transitional
POPULATION: 6,570,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj
- PAKISTAN
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 4,015,000
GOVERNMENT: Federal republic
POPULATION: 204,596,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: Prime Minister Imran Khan
- ERITREA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Christian denominational protectionism
CHRISTIANS: 2,492,000
GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic
POPULATION: 5,310,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam/Christianity
LEADER: President Isaias Afwerki
- SUDAN
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 1,963,000
GOVERNMENT: Transitional
POPULATION: 42,514,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok
- YEMEN
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: A few thousand
GOVERNMENT: Islamic republic
POPULATION: 29,580,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed
- IRAN
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 800,0001
GOVERNMENT: Islamic republic
POPULATION: 82,821,000
MAIN RELIGION: 82,821,000
LEADER: Islam President Hassan Rouhani
- INDIA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Religious nationalism
CHRISTIANS: 66,194,000
GOVERNMENT: Federal republic
POPULATION: 1,368,738,000
MAIN RELIGION: Hinduism
LEADER: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- SYRIA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 744,000
GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic
POPULATION: 18,499,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: President Bashar al-Assad
- NIGERIA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 93,791,000
GOVERNMENT: Federal presidential republic
POPULATION: 200,962,000
MAIN RELIGION: Christianity/Islam
LEADER: President Maj. Gen. (ret.) Muhammadu Buhari
- SAUDI ARABIA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 1,419,0001
GOVERNMENT: Absolute monarchy
POPULATION: 34,141,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- MALDIVES
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: Thousands
GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic
POPULATION: 452,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
- IRAQ
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 202,000
GOVERNMENT: Federal republic
POPULATION: 40,412,000 I
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: Vacant as of publication
- EGYPT
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 16,250,000
GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic
POPULATION: 101,169,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
- ALGERIA
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression
CHRISTIANS: 129,000
GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic
POPULATION: 42,679,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: Interim President Abdelkader Bensalah
- UZBEKISTAN
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Dictatorial paranoia
CHRISTIANS: 349,000
GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic
POPULATION: 32,807,000
MAIN RELIGION: Islam
LEADER: President Shavkat Mirziyoyev
- MYANMAR
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Religious nationalism
CHRISTIANS: 4,322,000
GOVERNMENT: Parliamentary republic
POPULATION: 54,336,000
0MAIN RELIGION: Buddhism
LEADER: President Win Myint
- LAOS
SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Clan and ethnic antagonism
CHRISTIANS: 227,000
GOVERNMENT: Communist state
POPULATION: 7,064,000
MAIN RELIGION: Buddhism
LEADER: President Bounnhang Vorachith
THE OTHER COUNTRIES
21. Vietnam 22. Turkmenistan 23. China 24. Mauritania 25. Central African Republic 26. Morocco 27. Qatar 28. Burkina Faso 29. Mali 30. Sri Lanka 31. Tajikistan 32. Nepal 33. Jordan 34. Tunisia 35. Kazakhstan 36. Turkey 37. Brunei 38. Bangladesh 39. Ethiopia 40. Malaysia 41. Colombia 42. Oman 43 Kuwait 44. Kenya 45. Bhutan 46. Russian Federation 47. United Arab Emirates 48. Cameroon 49. Indonesia 50. Niger
