- Page 1 and 2: REPORT 2012 2012 LIBERDADE RELIGIOU
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- Page 7 and 8: Trying to come up with a hierarchy
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- Page 14 and 15: The brutal execution of Abdul Latif
- Page 16 and 17: AREA 2,381,741 Km² ALGERIA RELIGIO
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- Page 20 and 21: AREA 1,246,700 Km² ANGOLA The Cons
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- Page 34 and 35: members and founders 12 . In Januar
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- Page 40 and 41: On March 7, 2011 the government ado
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- Page 44 and 45: Sources consulted Byelorussian Chri
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AREA 1,234,567 Km² BULGARIA The Bu
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AREA 274,200 Km² BURKINA FASO RELI
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AREA 181,035 Km² CAMBODIA RELIGIOU
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AREA 9,970,610 Km² CANADA RELIGIOU
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AREA 4,033 Km² CAPE VERDE RELIGIOU
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AREA 1,284,000 Km² CHAD RELIGIOUS
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Non-Catholic Christian communities
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security grounds, terrorism or corr
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Episcopal ordinations The governmen
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In its statement, SARA said that th
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sion” if he did not sign the rele
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National Security and local Public
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Protestants For many years, China
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he received from the authorities be
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Landlords evicted another 30 from t
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Torture Arrested by the police on F
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By raising the spectre of terrorism
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Using metal rods, police agents str
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According to exiled Tibetan sources
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Other monks were present at the tim
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On August 29 Tsundue Lobsang, a Tib
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At the end of January the Indian au
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It “is a great injustice to the C
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Non-negotiable values Legislative a
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tence and a fine. Even the simple d
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AREA 2,344,858 Km² CONGO (DRC) Art
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AREA 51,100 Km² Legislative situat
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AREA 56,538 Km² Legislation CROATI
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Many claims by Jewish owners, inclu
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In November 2010 the Church was abl
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then more than 160,000 citizens of
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communist regime is not complete. I
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test within six months of entering
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AREA 751 Km² DOMINICA RELIGIOUS AD
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AREA 283,561 Km² Legislative chang
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AREA 1,001,449 Km² EGYPT RELIGIOUS
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On November 16, 2010, Muslims set f
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attended by the governor of Alexand
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The Central American University’s
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and one Jehovah’s Witness have di
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Abuna Antonios has been under house
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Deaths in prison Six Christians, ar
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Forced conversions In 2011 there we
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AREA 1,104,300 Km² ETHIOPIA RELIGI
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Under a 2008 law, it is unlawful to
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The attack was mostly against Evang
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AREA 18,274 Km² FIJI ISLANDS RELIG
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AREA 551,500 Km² FRANCE RELIGIOUS
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four months and subjected to discip
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AREA 11,295 Km² GAMBIA RELIGIOUS A
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The Muslim community is asking for
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September 2011 a group of radical a
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AREA 238,533 Km² GHANA Religious f
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AREA 131,957 Km² Legislation GREEC
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AREA 344 Km² GRENADA RELIGIOUS ADH
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The Catholic Church also issued a s
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AREA 245,857 Km² GUINEA - CONAKRY
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AREA 214,969 Km² Legislative chang
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AREA 27,750 Km² Legislative change
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AREA 112,088 Km² HONDURAS POPULATI
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AREA 93,032 Km² HUNGARY On April 8
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AREA 103,000 Km² ICELAND RELIGIOUS
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In the Christian community those mo
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Anti-Christian violence: false accu
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the local police station, where the
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The most serious aspect, as the pre
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At times the offences were acts of
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Sister Valsa, murdered by the “Co
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the murder of Parikhita Digal, over
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AREA 1,904,569 Km² INDONESIA RELIG
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y Bei Sutopanitro, a catechist, who
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Threats and attacks against non-Cat
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a Muslim had been killed by Christi
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attack of February 6 that sowed dea
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AREA 1,648,195 Km² IRAN RELIGIOUS
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AREA 438,317 Km² IRAQ RELIGIOUS AD
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a priest and two worshippers and to
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AREA 84,405 Km² IRELAND RELIGIOUS
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AREA 20,770 Km² ISRAEL RELIGIOUS A
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mainly in Jerusalem, offend the sen
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This ruling was followed by others
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commonly used private locations to
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AREA 10,991 Km² JAMAICA RELIGIOUS
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AREA 84,394 Km² JORDAN RELIGIOUS A
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including Protestant communities an
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AREA 580,367 Km² KENYA RELIGIOUS A
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AREA 726 Km² KIRIBATI RELIGIOUS AD
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In public life, both Kim Il-sung an
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Mgr Hong as the diocese’s first b
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temple in Mount Mohyang. Here, a ce
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AREA 17,818 Km² KUWAIT RELIGIOUS A
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Bishop Ballin is a member of the Is
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considered a threat to national sec
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ill. As confirmed by Mgr Nikolaus M
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not allow his daughter to wear a hi
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AREA 236,800 Km² LAOS RELIGIOUS AD
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In preparing the ordination, Mgr Ti
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his example and were baptised. The
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AREA 64,600 Km² LATVIA RELIGIOUS A
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In June 2011, Patriarch Rai invited
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AREA 30,355 Km² LESOTHO RELIGIOUS
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AREA 1,759,540 Km² LIBYA RELIGIOUS
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AREA 160 Km² LIECHTENSTEIN RELIGIO
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AREA 2,586 Km² LUXEMBOURG RELIGIOU
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den cross in a country Church. At t
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AREA 118,484 Km² MALAWI RELIGIOUS
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AREA 329,758 Km² MALAYSIA RELIGIOU
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At the moment when the relations we
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November 30, St Andrew’s Day, was
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Victoria has fought in court agains
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Muslims and extremism In Malaysia t
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AREA 1,240,192 Km² MALI In the Con
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AREA 316 Km² MALTA RELIGIOUS ADHER
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AREA 102,532 Km² MAURITANIA RELIGI
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AREA 1,958,201 Km² MEXICO POPULATI
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visit of someone bringing a message
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AREA 33,831 Km² Legislation MOLDOV
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Transnistria The authorities in the
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AREA 1,566,500 Km² MONGOLIA RELIGI
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AREA 446,550 Km² MOROCCO RELIGIOUS
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AREA 676,578 Km² MYANMAR In the co
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devotion for a new era, marked by
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eported that Churches had been seiz
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The tragedy experienced by the Musl
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AREA 21 Km² NAURU RELIGIOUS ADHERE
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Representatives of the Christian, M
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arguing that he was killed to slow
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from the Nepali parliament to the U
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ehind this ban is Geert Wilders, le
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AREA 130,000 Km² NICARAGUA RELIGIO
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AREA 1,267,000 Km² NIGER The Const
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Muslim groups in the south of the c
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and Muslims have now become totally
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On March 10 more incidents were rep
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provided his wife and daughter Sum
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old Rifkatu, 9-year-old Patience, 5
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Madalla where a car bomb killed 45
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AREA 212,457 Km² OMAN RELIGIOUS AD
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parliamentary approval. When Pakist
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eligious minorities in 2011. It rel
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Punjab, the country’s beating hea
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The school principal, Asif Siddiqui
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in Sindh province. The incident rai
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during which he abused her and repe
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PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES AND GAZA RE
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AREA 75,517 Km² PANAMA RELIGIOUS A
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AREA 406,752 Km² PARAGUAY RELIGIOU
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AREA 1,285,216 Km² New legislation
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In January 2011 F. Mario Bartolini,
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various areas of Mindanao are barba
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Conflict over the birth control law
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AREA 91,982 Km² PORTUGAL RELIGIOUS
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AREA 11,000 Km² QATAR In spite of
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AREA 238,391 Km² ROMANIA RELIGIOUS
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AREA 17,075,400 Km² The legal situ
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As in the past, the fund for the su
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Other organisations There have been
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AREA 261 Km² SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
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AREA 388 Km² SAINT VINCENT AND THE
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AREA 61 Km² SAN MARINO RELIGIOUS A
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AREA 2,149,690 Km² SAUDI ARABIA RE
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On February 12, 2011 an Eritrean Ch
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The Saudi Mufti, Sheikh Abdelaziz A
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In January 2012 King Abdullah dismi
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AREA 88,361 Km² Serbia SERBIA AND
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Non-governmental organisations work
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This is the only way they can get p
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AREA 71,740 Km² SIERRA LEONE RELIG
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AREA 49,012 Km² SLOVAKIA RELIGIOUS
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AREA 20,266 Km² SLOVENIA RELIGIOUS
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AREA 28,896 Km² SOLOMON ISLANDS RE
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have joined the TFG. In June 2011 t
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tones have been banned except when
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their home. Al-Shabaab had been kee
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“Our nation”, the Christian lea
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Apostasy, blasphemy and the defamat
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called for the removal of World You
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Cultural events On March 24, 2011 t
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AREA 65,610 Km² SRI LANKA RELIGIOU
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children being sold for 700,000 rup
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ostracism, police surveillance and
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Friday is the weekly day of rest. C
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Survivors of the extrajudicial kill
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AREA 163,820 Km² SURINAME RELIGIOU
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For the prelate, the violent crackd
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AREA 41,284 Km² The minaret issue
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AREA 185,180 Km² A changing situat
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TAIWAN AREA 33,961 Km² TAIWAN RELI
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According to the government, such m
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Turajonzoda was the leader of the s
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AREA 513,115 Km² THAILAND RELIGIOU
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AREA 14,374 Km² TIMOR LESTE RELIGI
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AREA 650 Km² TONGA RELIGIOUS ADHER
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AREA 163,610 Km² TUNISIA RELIGIOUS
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AREA 774,815 Km² TURKEY RELIGIOUS
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Helped by a number of jurists, the
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AREA 774,815 Km² TURKMENISTAN RELI
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Mahmud Hudaybergenov was sentenced
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AREA 241,038 Km² UGANDA RELIGIOUS
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AREA 603,700 Km² General situation
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AREA 83,600 Km² UNITED ARAB EMIRAT
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Ironically while Equalities Ministe
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a charitable organisation, received
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AREA 9,372,614 Km² UNITED STATES O
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unacceptable for Catholic employers
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AREA 175,016 Km² Legislative chang
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AREA 447,400 Km² UZBEKISTAN RELIGI
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One of the reasons given by the gov
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Konstantin Malchikovsky, the pastor
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mostly charged with attempting to s
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AREA 912,050 Km² VENEZUELA RELIGIO
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were members of a group that had ta
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closing ceremony at the National Ma
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Catholic Bishops asking them to inf
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aimed at arresting young activists
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councils. In addition to Fr Phan Kh
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On December 14, 2011, in An Giang p
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AREA 527,968 Km² YEMEN RELIGIOUS A
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AREA 752,618 Km² ZAMBIA RELIGIOUS
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In February 2009 the leaders of the
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ACN IN THE WORLD INTERNATIONAL HEAD
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SOURCES CONSULTED Research Reports
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The Express Tribune The Guardian; w
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www.beit-salam.km www.bilgesam.org
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Other sources Aida-Associazione Int
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A Afghanistan - Albania - Algeria A
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T Taiwan - Tajikistan - Tanzania Th