The report shows that:
in one in three countries there are serious violations of religious freedom;
the right to religious freedom was not respected in 62 of the 196 sovereign countries (31.6% of the total) in the two-year period 2018-2020;
violations of religious freedom have occurred in 42% of African nations;
in 42 countries (21% of the total), abandoning or changing one's religion can have serious legal and/or social consequences.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
In some countries, humanitarian aid has been denied to religious minorities;
the pandemic was used as a pretext to stigmatize some religious groups accused of having spread or even caused the pandemic.
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