60% of Americans think business owners should not have to provide services if it might signal support for beliefs on LGBT issues that they oppose.

In 2020, properties in 102 of the 198 countries and territories in the study were targeted in incidents tied to religion.

Incidents against Jewish people in 2020 ranged from verbal and physical assaults to vandalism of cemeteries and scapegoating for the pandemic.

Religiously unaffiliated people were harassed by governments, private groups or both in 27 countries in 2020.

Our study analyzes 198 countries and territories and is based on policies and events in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available.

Nearly a quarter of countries used force to prevent religious gatherings during the pandemic; other government restrictions and social hostilities related to religion remained fairly stable.

For more than a decade, Pew Research Center has been tracking global patterns in restrictions on religion – both those imposed by governments and hostilities committed by individuals and social groups.

Most U.S. adults do not believe that requests for religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccine are sincere.

79 countries and territories out of the 198 studied around the world (40%) had laws or policies in 2019 banning blasphemy.

As democratic nations have wrestled with economic, social and geopolitical upheaval in recent years, the future of liberal democracy has come into question. Our international surveys reveal key insights into how citizens think about democratic governance.