Pew Center Report, 14 January 2014. The Pew Research Center for Religion & Public Life announced that the share of countries with a high or very high level of hostility related to religion peaked in 2012. A third of the 198 countries in the survey had high religious hostilities in 2012, with religious hostility present in every major region of the world except the Americas. The sharpest spike in religious tension was in the Middle East and North Africa, largely as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings. 

The same report found that the level of government restrictions on religion stayed roughly the same between 2011 and 2012, while the abuse of religious minorities by private individuals or groups. The report also contains information on the use of violence or threat of violence to compel people to adhere to religious norms, harassment of women over religious dress, mob violence related to violence, and religion-related terrorist violence. For a complete listing of all the report’s findings, see the full report.