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Jun 2, 2022 · The law allows the government to criminalize a broad spectrum of activities as extremist but does not precisely define extremism. The law identifies Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism as the country’s four “traditional” religions and recognizes the special role of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).
Feb 28, 2014 · The reason for this ubiquitous phenomenon of Muslim persecution of Christians is threefold: Christianity is the largest religion in the world. There are Christians practically everywhere around the globe, including in much of the Muslim world. Moreover, because much of the land that Islam seized was originally Christian-including the Middle ...
May 29, 2018 · First, there are Christians (and people of all religions) actually being persecuted for their religious beliefs in other parts of the world. As recently as last Christmas, nine Coptic Christians ...
Estimates of the number of Christians in Syria in 2022 range from less than 2% to around 2.5% of the total Syrian population. [4] [10] Most Syrians are members of either the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch (700,000), or the Syriac Orthodox Church. The vast majority of Catholics belong to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
The real basis was the popular suspicion, contempt, and hatred for the early Christians. Without this motivating force it is inconceivable that the persecutions could have occurred. Under Nero (54-68) occurred the first persecution of a ‘new and mischievous superstition’, as Suetonius described it.
In Bulgaria, Christianity was not persecuted to the same extent as other Abrahamic religions, such as Islam.In particular, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, due to "its historic role in helping preserve Bulgarian nationalism and culture", was treated with favor by the communist government, in exchange for total submission to the state and a limitation of activities.
Christianity ( Hebrew: נצרות, romanized :Natsrút; Arabic: المسيحية, romanized :al-Masīḥiyya) is the third largest religion in Israel, after Judaism and Islam. At the end of 2022, Christians made up 1.9% of the Israeli population, numbering approximately 185,000. 75.8% of the Christians in Israel are Arab Christians.
