{"id":4877,"date":"2017-10-10T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4877-islam-is-world-s-most-common-state-religion-study\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T10:00:43","slug":"islam-is-world-s-most-common-state-religion-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4877-islam-is-world-s-most-common-state-religion-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam is world\u2019s most common state religion \u2014 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pew Research Center analysis of data from 199 countries finds 4 in 10 have officially endorsed faiths or preferred faiths.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Pew Research Center analysis of data from 199 countries finds 4 in 10 have officially endorsed faiths or preferred faiths<\/h4>\n<h4>Islam is the world\u2019s most common state-endorsed religion, according to a Pew Research Center study published Tuesday.<\/h4>\n<h4>Of the 199 countries covered in the survey, 43 designate a particular faith as its official state religion. Twenty-seven countries enshrine Islam as its official religion, compared to 13 countries that do the same for Christianity.<\/h4>\n<h4>However, of the 40 governments that unofficially favor a particular religion, 28 of them give clear preference to Christianity, the study said.<\/h4>\n<h4>Over 80 countries, or 4 in 10, have official government faiths or preferred faiths.<\/h4>\n<h4>Israel is the only country whose state religion is Judaism. Several countries including Russia, Lithuania and Serbia include Judaism as one of their \u201ctraditional\u201d favored religions along with Christianity.<\/h4>\n<h4>The majority of governments, though, are what Pew referred to as \u201cneutral\u201d toward religion. Over 100 of them have no official or preferred religion. These include the United States, which gives benefits to particular religious groups, but \u201cgenerally does so without systematically favoring a specific group over others,\u201d researchers said.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pew Research Center analysis of data from 199 countries finds 4 in 10 have officially endorsed faiths or preferred faiths. \u00a0 Pew Research Center analysis of data from 199 countries finds 4 in 10 have officially endorsed faiths or preferred faiths Islam is the world\u2019s most common state-endorsed religion, according to a Pew Research Center &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[100,205,994,675],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-islam","tag-muslim","tag-study","tag-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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