Persecution of Christians

Persecution of Christians - slaughter of christians throughout history. Article “Persecution of Christians” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in Arabic Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Persecution of Christians”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3051 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6821^st place).

The article is cited 22 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7995 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #543 in February 2013
• Global: #264 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #10140 in October 2019
• Global: #16733 in September 2014

There are 31 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, 2025 (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	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد المسيحيين		100
2	Malay (ms) Penganiayaan agama Kristian		100
3	Polish (pl) Prześladowania chrześcijan		99.8582
4	English (en) Persecution of Christians		94.8345
5	Hungarian (hu) Keresztényüldözés		94.2857
6	Catalan (ca) Persecució dels cristians		89.6109
7	Italian (it) Persecuzione dei cristiani		80.763
8	German (de) Christenverfolgung		77.3571
9	Portuguese (pt) Perseguição aos cristãos		68.2075
10	Galician (gl) Persecucións aos cristiáns		60.3996

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Persecution of Christians" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Persecution of Christians		4 113 472
2	Spanish (es) Persecución a los cristianos		2 487 761
3	German (de) Christenverfolgung		985 293
4	Portuguese (pt) Perseguição aos cristãos		945 253
5	Italian (it) Persecuzione dei cristiani		688 108
6	Polish (pl) Prześladowania chrześcijan		525 687
7	French (fr) Persécution des chrétiens		410 085
8	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد المسيحيين		385 861
9	Dutch (nl) Christenvervolgingen		209 208
10	Finnish (fi) Kristittyjen vainot		195 976

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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 "Persecution of Christians" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Persecution of Christians		24 407
2	Spanish (es) Persecución a los cristianos		4 825
3	German (de) Christenverfolgung		3 822
4	Portuguese (pt) Perseguição aos cristãos		1 964
5	Italian (it) Persecuzione dei cristiani		1 512
6	French (fr) Persécution des chrétiens		1 361
7	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد المسيحيين		1 308
8	Polish (pl) Prześladowania chrześcijan		892
9	Russian (ru) Преследования христиан		822
10	Malay (ms) Penganiayaan agama Kristian		578

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Persecution of Christians		1 284
2	German (de) Christenverfolgung		402
3	Italian (it) Persecuzione dei cristiani		217
4	French (fr) Persécution des chrétiens		196
5	Spanish (es) Persecución a los cristianos		182
6	Dutch (nl) Christenvervolgingen		136
7	Polish (pl) Prześladowania chrześcijan		95
8	Portuguese (pt) Perseguição aos cristãos		93
9	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد المسيحيين		64
10	Finnish (fi) Kristittyjen vainot		60

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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 "Persecution of Christians" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Persecution of Christians		5
2	Italian (it) Persecuzione dei cristiani		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Perseguição aos cristãos		2
4	Finnish (fi) Kristittyjen vainot		1
5	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد المسيحيين		0
6	Catalan (ca) Persecució dels cristians		0
7	Czech (cs) Pronásledování křesťanů		0
8	Danish (da) Kristenforfølgelse		0
9	German (de) Christenverfolgung		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Persekutado de kristanoj		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 "Persecution of Christians" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Persecution of Christians		2 807
2	Portuguese (pt) Perseguição aos cristãos		913
3	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد المسيحيين		799
4	Indonesian (id) Penindasan terhadap orang Kristen		508
5	German (de) Christenverfolgung		433
6	Persian (fa) آزار مسیحیان		308
7	French (fr) Persécution des chrétiens		281
8	Dutch (nl) Christenvervolgingen		222
9	Spanish (es) Persecución a los cristianos		210
10	Polish (pl) Prześladowania chrześcijan		172

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اضطهاد المسيحيين
ca	Catalan Persecució dels cristians
cs	Czech Pronásledování křesťanů
da	Danish Kristenforfølgelse
de	German Christenverfolgung
en	English Persecution of Christians
eo	Esperanto Persekutado de kristanoj
es	Spanish Persecución a los cristianos
fa	Persian آزار مسیحیان
fi	Finnish Kristittyjen vainot
fr	French Persécution des chrétiens
gl	Galician Persecucións aos cristiáns
hr	Croatian Progoni kršćana
hu	Hungarian Keresztényüldözés
id	Indonesian Penindasan terhadap orang Kristen
it	Italian Persecuzione dei cristiani
ko	Korean 기독교 박해
la	Latin Persecutio Christianorum
ms	Malay Penganiayaan agama Kristian
nl	Dutch Christenvervolgingen
pl	Polish Prześladowania chrześcijan
pt	Portuguese Perseguição aos cristãos
ro	Romanian Persecuția creștinilor
ru	Russian Преследования христиан
sh	Serbo-Croatian Progon kršćana
simple	Simple English Persecution of Christians
sr	Serbian Прогон хришћана
ta	Tamil கிறிஸ்தவர்களை துன்புறுத்துதல்
th	Thai การเบียดเบียนคริสต์ศาสนิกชน
uk	Ukrainian Гоніння християн
zh	Chinese 對基督徒的迫害

Best Rank

Simple English: #10140 10.2019

Global: #16733 09.2014

Best Rank

Simple English: #543 02.2013

Global: #264 01.2002

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