Religious freedom in the United States has declined in recent years, according to a Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project. Hostilities against all religions have reached a six-year high, with Christians in 151 countries being persecuted.
Columnist Emma Green explains in The Atlantic:
“In the introduction to the chart, Pew’s researchers specifically noted that the U.S. ranked among the least restrictive of the included countries. But when the group isn’t limited to the countries with the largest populations, the U.S. doesn’t seem to fare as well. America has harsher restrictions than roughly 130 other countries.”