Home›Sources›International Religious Freedom ReportSourcesInternational Religious Freedom ReportCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "International Religious Freedom Report." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/international-religious-freedom-report.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). International Religious Freedom Report. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/international-religious-freedom-reportCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-international-religious-freedom-report, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {International Religious Freedom Report}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/international-religious-freedom-report}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe United States Department of State's annual country by country report on the legal and social status of religious freedom, covering government policy, restrictions and documented incidents of discrimination or persecution against religious groups. As an official government report from an established diplomatic institution it sits at this atlas's top tier for what it documents. It is the right source for the legal and political treatment of a religion in a specific country and year. It carries its own diplomatic framing and priorities as a US government publication, and it is not independent academic scholarship on the religion itself, a distinction worth keeping in mind for any politically sensitive claim.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (1,297 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1US State Department report; source-type government, precedent 21 of 22 tiered government-shaped rows are tier 1.NotesWell-attestedThe United States government's annual country-by-country report on the legal and social status of religious freedom, covering government policy, restrictions and incidents of discrimination or persecution. Use for facts about the legal and political treatment of a religion in a given country and year; a government report with its own diplomatic framing, not independent academic scholarship on the religion itself.CitationAuthorWell-attestedUnited States Department of State, Office of International Religious FreedomPublisherWell-attestedUS Department of StatePublication YearWell-attested2023URLWell-attestedhttps://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/Source TypeWell-attestedgovernmentClaims Backed By This Source (1,297 claims)This source backs 1,297 claims across the atlas. As facts: 944 well-attested, 36 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 45 connected. Plus 271 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicCountries, 862 claims: 629 well-attested, 35 scholarly debate, 198 general references.Articles, 372 claims: 283 well-attested, 44 connected, 45 general references.Denominations, 39 claims: 18 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 20 general references.Religions, 15 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 8 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Religious Events, 1 claims: 1 holds.Well-attested944ArticlesA 750 Member Registration Bar in NauruA Census That Does Not Ask, and the Kadhi Courts QuestionA Concordat and Two Independence Days in Timor-LesteA Light Touch Registration Regime in LiberiaA Monarchy With a Ceremonial Religious Role in LesothoA Named Church and a Court-Tested Guarantee in TuvaluA Plurinational Constitution, and a Ceremony at TiwanakuA Preamble Committed to Christian Values in the BahamasA Secular Charter and Weak Institutions in Guinea-BissauA Secular Charter Under Military Rule in NigerA Secular State and Its Clerical Mediators in Congo-BrazzavilleA Shia Majority Under a Secular StateA Supremacy of God Formula and a Shared Nunciature in DominicaA Two Percent Registration Threshold in KiribatiAn Established Church and a Reform That Failed in LiechtensteinApostasy Law and the Legacy of Slavery in MauritaniaArticle 2, the Bombings and the Devotions Rome Does Not ApproveAsatruarfelagid, and a Heathen Body Recognised Before Any OtherAshura, 2011 and the Politics of a Shia MajorityBlasphemy Law and the Status of the Ahmadi MinorityBrunei's Dual Legal System of Sharia and Civil LawCatholic Dominance in a Former British Colony: Saint LuciaChurch Leaders Against the Revolution in GrenadaCitizenship, Apostasy and Religious Law in the MaldivesContested Sovereignty at Jerusalem's Holy SitesDjibouti's Registration Regime and a Security ScreenEtchmiadzin, 1915 and the Church as a NationFifty Five Years Outside Communion, and the Settlement of 2022Freedom of Religion and an Indigenous Recognized Faith in PalauFreedom on Paper Through Seychelles' One-Party DecadesFrom Clergy Salaries to Negotiated Conventions in LuxembourgFrom Hindu Kingdom to Secular RepublicGranted Land, the Abrahamic Family House and Managed PluralismGuardianship of Mecca, Medina and the HajjIbadi Doctrine and Omani Religious PolicyIndonesia's Six Recognized Religions and Interfaith TensionIslam in Mindanao and the Bangsamoro SettlementManaging Religious Harmony by StatuteMetropolitan Church of Bessarabia, and a Judgment That Set the RuleNo Establishment and a Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall IslandsNo Establishment and an Unenforced Blasphemy Law in GuyanaNo Establishment in a Long Anglican Tradition: Antigua and BarbudaNo Establishment in the First English Colony: Saint Kitts and NevisOrdinance 06-03, the Closed Churches and the Martyrs of OranPillarisation and the Funding of Religious SchoolsRastafari, from Coral Gardens to an ApologyRegistration and the Limits of Religious Recognition in TogoRegistration and the Place of Royal Ritual Under Eswatini LawRegistration, Cao Dai and the Highland House ChurchesReligion and History in ArgentinaShowing 1 to 50 of 346 entities carrying this claim. NextScholarly debate36CountriesBahrainBangladeshBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaBurkina FasoChinaCroatiaCyprusDominican RepublicEcuadorGeorgiaGhanaGuatemalaHungaryIsraelIvory CoastLatviaLibyaMalaysiaMyanmarPapua New GuineaPhilippinesRomaniaSamoaSerbiaSlovakiaSouth AfricaSudanSwitzerlandSyriaTanzaniaUgandaVenezuelaYemenDenominationsHaredi JudaismHolds1Religious EventsPersecution of Christians in North KoreaConnected45ArticlesA 750 Member Registration Bar in NauruA Concordat and Two Independence Days in Timor-LesteA Light Touch Registration Regime in LiberiaA Monarchy With a Ceremonial Religious Role in LesothoA Named Church and a Court-Tested Guarantee in TuvaluA Preamble Committed to Christian Values in the BahamasA Secular Charter and Weak Institutions in Guinea-BissauA Secular Charter Under Military Rule in NigerA Secular State and Its Clerical Mediators in Congo-BrazzavilleA Supremacy of God Formula and a Shared Nunciature in DominicaA Two Percent Registration Threshold in KiribatiAn Established Church and a Reform That Failed in LiechtensteinApostasy Law and the Legacy of Slavery in MauritaniaBrunei's Dual Legal System of Sharia and Civil LawCatholic Dominance in a Former British Colony: Saint LuciaChurch Leaders Against the Revolution in GrenadaCitizenship, Apostasy and Religious Law in the MaldivesDjibouti's Registration Regime and a Security ScreenFreedom of Religion and an Indigenous Recognized Faith in PalauFreedom on Paper Through Seychelles' One-Party DecadesFrom Clergy Salaries to Negotiated Conventions in LuxembourgNo Establishment and a Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall IslandsNo Establishment and an Unenforced Blasphemy Law in GuyanaNo Establishment in a Long Anglican Tradition: Antigua and BarbudaNo Establishment in the First English Colony: Saint Kitts and NevisRegistration and the Limits of Religious Recognition in TogoRegistration and the Place of Royal Ritual Under Eswatini LawReligion and History in Equatorial GuineaReligion and History in North KoreaReligion and History in the GambiaReligious Law and the Status of Non-Muslim Faiths in ComorosReligious Registration and State Control Under the Turkmen GovernmentReligious Registration and the Law in KyrgyzstanSecularism and Religious Registration in GuineaSecularism and Shared Holidays in Chadian LawState Recognition and Tax-Funded Religion in San MarinoSufi Orders and Islamist Pressure in SomaliaThe 2009 Religion Law and State Control of Islam in TajikistanThe Constitution's Religious Guarantees After the Central African Civil WarThe Co-Principality and Catholic Privilege in AndorraThe Gambia's Reversed Islamic Republic DeclarationThe Legal Architecture of Religious Suppression in North KoreaThree Church-State Arrangements in One Country: MontenegroTwo Churches Above the Law in Equatorial GuineaReligionsCao ĐàiGeneral References271ArticlesA 750 Member Registration Bar in NauruA Concordat and Two Independence Days in Timor-LesteA Light Touch Registration Regime in LiberiaA Monarchy With a Ceremonial Religious Role in LesothoA Named Church and a Court-Tested Guarantee in TuvaluA Preamble Committed to Christian Values in the BahamasA Secular Charter and Weak Institutions in Guinea-BissauA Secular Charter Under Military Rule in NigerA Secular State and Its Clerical Mediators in Congo-BrazzavilleA Supremacy of God Formula and a Shared Nunciature in DominicaA Two Percent Registration Threshold in KiribatiAn Established Church and a Reform That Failed in LiechtensteinApostasy Law and the Legacy of Slavery in MauritaniaBrunei's Dual Legal System of Sharia and Civil LawCatholic Dominance in a Former British Colony: Saint LuciaChurch Leaders Against the Revolution in GrenadaCitizenship, Apostasy and Religious Law in the MaldivesControversies and ResponsesDjibouti's Registration Regime and a Security ScreenFreedom of Religion and an Indigenous Recognized Faith in PalauFreedom on Paper Through Seychelles' One-Party DecadesFrom Clergy Salaries to Negotiated Conventions in LuxembourgNo Establishment and a Nuclear Legacy in the Marshall IslandsNo Establishment and an Unenforced Blasphemy Law in GuyanaNo Establishment in a Long Anglican Tradition: Antigua and BarbudaNo Establishment in the First English Colony: Saint Kitts and NevisRegistration and the Limits of Religious Recognition in TogoRegistration and the Place of Royal Ritual Under Eswatini LawReligion and History in Equatorial GuineaReligion and History in North KoreaReligion and History in the GambiaReligious Law and the Status of Non-Muslim Faiths in ComorosReligious Registration and State Control Under the Turkmen GovernmentReligious Registration and the Law in KyrgyzstanSecularism and Religious Registration in GuineaSecularism and Shared Holidays in Chadian LawState Recognition and Tax-Funded Religion in San MarinoSufi Orders and Islamist Pressure in SomaliaThe 2009 Religion Law and State Control of Islam in TajikistanThe Constitution's Religious Guarantees After the Central African Civil WarThe Co-Principality and Catholic Privilege in AndorraThe Gambia's Reversed Islamic Republic DeclarationThe Legal Architecture of Religious Suppression in North KoreaThree Church-State Arrangements in One Country: MontenegroTwo Churches Above the Law in Equatorial GuineaCountriesAfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAndorraAngolaShowing 1 to 50 of 269 entities carrying this claim. 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