Religious persecution

Religious persecution - systematic mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or lack thereof. Article “Religious persecution” in English Wikipedia has 92.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 388 references and 36 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.87 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Religious persecution” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Religious persecution”, its content was written by 472 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 886 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2019 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5635 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3013 in August 2020
• Global: #11062 in October 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #45663 in December 2019
• Global: #74279 in December 2019

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Religious persecution		92.5189
2	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		83.5382
3	Italian (it) Persecuzione religiosa		42.0011
4	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		35.8805
5	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		35.7097
6	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		34.7364
7	Spanish (es) Persecución religiosa		34.1316
8	Vietnamese (vi) Đàn áp tôn giáo		31.0311
9	Serbian (sr) Религијски прогони		29.9661
10	Simple English (simple) Religious persecution		27.7096

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Religious persecution" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Religious persecution		1 868 015
2	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		169 715
3	Japanese (ja) 宗教的迫害		152 647
4	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		99 871
5	Italian (it) Persecuzione religiosa		94 990
6	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		79 338
7	French (fr) Persécutions religieuses		46 940
8	Hungarian (hu) Vallásüldözés		44 651
9	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		43 732
10	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		38 784

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Religious persecution" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Religious persecution		4 171
2	Japanese (ja) 宗教的迫害		336
3	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		333
4	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		160
5	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		148
6	French (fr) Persécutions religieuses		129
7	Spanish (es) Persecución religiosa		91
8	Simple English (simple) Religious persecution		61
9	Italian (it) Persecuzione religiosa		57
10	Korean (ko) 종교 박해		57

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Religious persecution" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Religious persecution		472
2	Hungarian (hu) Vallásüldözés		54
3	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		52
4	Italian (it) Persecuzione religiosa		48
5	Japanese (ja) 宗教的迫害		48
6	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		43
7	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		30
8	French (fr) Persécutions religieuses		24
9	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		22
10	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		21

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Religious persecution" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Religious persecution		2
2	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		1
3	Vietnamese (vi) Đàn áp tôn giáo		1
4	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		0
5	Czech (cs) Náboženská perzekuce		0
6	Danish (da) Religiøs forfølgelse		0
7	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Religia persekutado		0
9	Spanish (es) Persecución religiosa		0
10	Estonian (et) Usuline tagakiusamine		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Religious persecution" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Religious persecution		2 019
2	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		950
3	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		564
4	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		474
5	Japanese (ja) 宗教的迫害		395
6	French (fr) Persécutions religieuses		319
7	Korean (ko) 종교 박해		272
8	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		161
9	Hungarian (hu) Vallásüldözés		112
10	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		84

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اضطهاد ديني
cs	Czech Náboženská perzekuce
da	Danish Religiøs forfølgelse
de	German Religiöse Verfolgung
en	English Religious persecution
eo	Esperanto Religia persekutado
es	Spanish Persecución religiosa
et	Estonian Usuline tagakiusamine
fa	Persian آزار و اذیت دینی
fr	French Persécutions religieuses
hi	Hindi साम्प्रदायिक उत्पीड़न
hu	Hungarian Vallásüldözés
id	Indonesian Penindasan agama
it	Italian Persecuzione religiosa
ja	Japanese 宗教的迫害
ko	Korean 종교 박해
no	Norwegian Religiøs forfølgelse
simple	Simple English Religious persecution
sr	Serbian Религијски прогони
sv	Swedish Religiös förföljelse
ta	Tamil சமயத் துன்புறுத்தல்
vi	Vietnamese Đàn áp tôn giáo
zh	Chinese 宗教迫害

Best Rank

English: #45663 12.2019

Global: #74279 12.2019

Best Rank

English: #3013 08.2020

Global: #11062 10.2020

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