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05\/04\/2012 United States<\/strong> (The Christian Post<\/a>) – The head of a California-based evangelical religious liberty group stated Thursday that Christianity is presently the most persecuted religion on earth based on evidence gathered.<\/p>\n

Dr. Carl Moeller told The Christian Post at an event on rising religious intolerance abroad that Christians are “the most persecuted in the world” when the nonprofit examined religious groups suffering from increased persecution.<\/p>\n

“In terms of sheer numbers, the large size of the Christian populations around the world, where they’re repressed or restricted\u2026 Whether you count martyrs, those killed, or you count those living in regimes, sizable Christian populations live under extreme restrictions in places like China, Indonesia, and of course the Middle East,” said Moeller.
\nHe noted that “the methodology for determining this was not from Open Doors necessarily. It was through organizations like Pew Research.”<\/p>\n

Moeller cited in his remarks a 2011 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life study that concluded that about 70 percent of the world’s population lives in a religiously intolerant environment and 32 percent of the world’s population experienced a rise in religious hostility either at the social or government level.
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