{"id":64121,"date":"2017-10-05T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64121"},"modified":"2017-10-05T05:54:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:54:55","slug":"prc-many-countries-favor-specific-religions-officially-or-unofficially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64121","title":{"rendered":"(PRC) Many Countries Favor Specific Religions, Officially or Unofficially"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(PRC) Many Countries Favr Specific Religions, Officially or Unofficially <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mrza8dLTUB\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mrza8dLTUB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/religion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#religion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/globalisation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#globalisation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/history?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#history<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/politics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/915877190704799744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>More than 80 countries favor a specific religion, either as an official, government-endorsed religion or by affording one religion preferential treatment over other faiths, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data covering 199 countries and territories around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Islam is the most common government-endorsed faith, with 27 countries (including most in the Middle East-North Africa region) officially enshrining Islam as their state religion. By comparison, just 13 countries (including nine European nations) designate Christianity or a particular Christian denomination as their state religion.<\/p>\n<p>But an additional 40 governments around the globe unofficially favor a particular religion, and in most cases the preferred faith is a branch of Christianity. Indeed, Christian churches receive preferential treatment in more countries \u2013 28 \u2013 than any other unofficial but favored faith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2017\/10\/03\/many-countries-favor-specific-religions-officially-or-unofficially\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(PRC) Many Countries Favr Specific Religions, Officially or Unofficially https:\/\/t.co\/Mrza8dLTUB #religion #globalisation #history #politics &mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) October 5, 2017 More than 80 countries favor a specific religion, either as an official, government-endorsed religion or by affording one religion<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64121\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,119,133,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-globalization","category-history","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64123,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64121\/revisions\/64123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}