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LIST OF 50 COUNTRIES WHERE CHRISTIANS ARE MOST PERSECUTED – REPORT BY OPEN DOORS USA

 

 

LIST OF 50 COUNTRIES WHERE CHRISTIANS ARE MOST PERSECUTED – REPORT BY OPEN DOORS USA

 

  1. 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

 

  1. AGFANISTAN

SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Clan and ethnic antagonism

CHRISTIANS: Thousands

GOVERNMENT: Islamic Republic

POPULATION: 37,209,000

MAIN RELIGION: Islam

LEADER: President Ashraf Ghani

 

  1. 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”

 

  1. LIBYA

SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression

CHRISTIANS: 36,200

GOVERNMENT: Transitional

POPULATION: 6,570,000

MAIN RELIGION: Islam

LEADER: Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. SUDAN

SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression

CHRISTIANS: 1,963,000

GOVERNMENT: Transitional

POPULATION: 42,514,000

MAIN RELIGION: Islam

LEADER: Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. SYRIA

SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression

CHRISTIANS: 744,000

GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic

POPULATION: 18,499,000

MAIN RELIGION: Islam

LEADER: President Bashar al-Assad

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. MALDIVES

SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression

CHRISTIANS: Thousands

GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic

POPULATION: 452,000

MAIN RELIGION: Islam

LEADER: President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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

 

  1. ALGERIA

SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Islamic oppression

CHRISTIANS: 129,000

GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic

POPULATION: 42,679,000

MAIN RELIGION: Islam

LEADER: Interim President Abdelkader Bensalah

 

  1. UZBEKISTAN

SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Dictatorial paranoia

CHRISTIANS: 349,000

GOVERNMENT: Presidential republic

POPULATION: 32,807,000

MAIN RELIGION: Islam

LEADER: President Shavkat Mirziyoyev

 

  1. MYANMAR

SOURCE OF PERSECUTION: Religious nationalism

CHRISTIANS: 4,322,000

GOVERNMENT: Parliamentary republic

POPULATION: 54,336,000

0MAIN RELIGION: Buddhism

LEADER: President Win Myint

 

  1. 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

 

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