Sentences with phrase «social hostilities»

"Social hostilities" refers to conflicts, tensions, or disagreements that arise between different groups of people within a society. It describes any form of hostility, such as discrimination, verbal abuse, or violence, that stems from differences in beliefs, ideologies, religions, or social status. These hostilities can create divisions, intolerance, and negative interactions among individuals or communities. Full definition
«Not only did these incidents contribute to an increase in the median level of social hostilities involving religion in sub-Saharan Africa in 2015, but also government policies and actions in response to the Boko Haram threat caused a rise in the median level of government restrictions,» Pew stated.
Along with government restrictions, social hostilities in Europe also rose in 2015.
The Pew Research Center found that in 2012, 3 out of 4 people worldwide lived in a country with high levels of social hostilities involving religion, compared with 64 percent of people who lived with high levels of government restrictions on religion.
President Joko Widodo has encouraged tolerance for Christians; while social hostility against Christians dropped a little from 2014 to 2015, Indonesia still made Pew's list of top 5 countries with the highest government restrictions.
In October, Hindu - majority Nepal took aim at evangelism by criminalizing religious conversion; the Pew Research Center has noted increasing social hostility there as far back as 2015.
Nigeria's social hostilities stem from Boko Haram, which attacked people in Cameroon, Niger, and Chad, as well as in Nigeria in 2015.
The latest study from the Pew Research Center found that government restrictions and social hostilities regarding religion in 2015 (the latest year with data available) were actually down a bit from record highs in 2012, although up significantly from 2007 when Pew began keeping track.
Both are high enough that their combined levels push India into Pew's top 5 countries (among the world's 25 most populous nations) for total government restrictions and social hostilities over religion.
Concerns raised included social hostility, the closure of places of worship, harassment and threats of violence toward religious minorities.
The Pew Research Center rated Indonesia high in both government restrictions and social hostilities in its 2017 report on global religious restrictions.
«Compared with other regions, sub-Saharan Africa experienced the largest increases in both government restrictions and social hostilities involving religion in 2015,» Pew stated.
But even though European government and social hostility toward religious groups grew in 2015, the region still falls far below the Middle East — North Africa.
In fact, despite the undisguised Hindu nationalist bent of the government, Pew rates India's social hostilities against religion as more intense than government restrictions.
Among the 25 most populous countries, «Egypt had the highest levels of government restrictions in 2015, while Nigeria had the highest levels of social hostilities,» Pew stated.
Sixteen countries had significant changes; of those, 12 saw increases in social hostility and four saw decreases.
The same number of countries stayed on the list of countries experiencing «very high» social hostilities, though Lebanon and Sri Lanka dropped off the list and Russia and Egypt were added.
Recently, religious freedom watchdogs have begun emphasizing more the different sources of persecution, such as government and social hostilities.
Social hostilities rose from 2014 to 2015, when Russia appeared on both the «very high» categories for both government restrictions and social hostilities.
Social hostilities involving religion soared worldwide in 2012, with nearly 3 out of 4 of the world's people (74 %) living in countries with high levels.
In 2014, Pew called out Indonesia (along with several other of the world's 25 most populous countries) as «having had the highest levels of overall restrictions in 2012 when both government restrictions and social hostilities involving religion are taken into account.»
Social hostilities and physical conflicts arising from religion is increasing over the last few years.
According to the Pew Research Center, social hostilities involving religion is increasing worldwide over the last six years.7
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