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  1. Apr 20, 2017 · Religion, power and politics in Indonesia. 20 April 2017. AFP/Getty Images. Anies Baswedan (centre) is a respected academic and known to be a moderate Muslim. A former minister has won the race ...

  2. Jun 1, 2009 · Legal Framework. Debates over religious liberties in Indonesia inevitably lead back to the nation's perennially contested 1945 constitution. The leaders of the country's independence struggle ...

  3. Mar 6, 2018 · Introduction: Conflicting Reports. There is controversy about the extent of religious freedom in almost every country in the world. Governments are likely to stress the positive aspects in their polity while human rights defenders are likely to be much more critical. But the disagreements about religious freedom in Indonesia are usually sharper ...

  4. Those using telephone and face-to-face survey modes show a very high percentage of Iranian identifying as Muslim—99.98% (the official 2011 Iranian government census, whose numbers were used by the CIA World Factbook), 96.6% (2020 survey by the World Values Survey), 96%, with 85% of the overall population identifying as Shias and with 11% of ...

  5. Sep 12, 2023 · In some countries, substantial shares express negative feelings about Christianity and Hinduism. In Indonesia, for example, 21% of Muslim adults surveyed say Christianity is not peaceful. These are among the key findings of a Pew Research Center survey conducted among 13,122 adults in six countries in Southeast and South Asia. Interviews were ...

  6. Islam (18.1%) Christianity (1.9%) Druze (1.6%) Others and unclassified (4.8%) Religion in Israel is manifested primarily in Judaism, the ethnic religion of the Jewish people. The State of Israel declares itself as a "Jewish and democratic state" and is the only country in the world with a Jewish-majority population (see Jewish state ). [2]

  7. The huge majority of the world population – 80% — now live in countries with a fertility rate below 3 children per woman. 3 On the other end of the spectrum there are a few countries — home to around 10% of the world population — where women on average have still more than 5 children.