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 Simple English Wikipedia has 28.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Religious persecution”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 860 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 33 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5699 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1209 in August 2013
• Global: #11045 in October 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7595 in September 2021
• Global: #74092 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, 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	English (en) Religious persecution		92.3935
2	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		83.5382
3	Italian (it) Persecuzione religiosa		42.2106
4	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		37.6589
5	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		36.4872
6	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		35.6269
7	Spanish (es) Persecución religiosa		34.7334
8	Serbian (sr) Религијски прогони		30.0441
9	Simple English (simple) Religious persecution		28.4089
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đàn áp tôn giáo		28.1846

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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		1 799 930
2	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		163 931
3	Japanese (ja) 宗教的迫害		147 721
4	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		97 184
5	Italian (it) Persecuzione religiosa		93 679
6	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		77 328
7	French (fr) Persécutions religieuses		44 867
8	Hungarian (hu) Vallásüldözés		43 948
9	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		38 927
10	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		37 851

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Religious persecution		9 711
2	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		575
3	Japanese (ja) 宗教的迫害		420
4	Simple English (simple) Religious persecution		311
5	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		246
6	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		226
7	French (fr) Persécutions religieuses		192
8	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		129
9	Italian (it) Persecuzione religiosa		113
10	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		66

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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		458
2	Hungarian (hu) Vallásüldözés		53
3	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		52
4	Italian (it) Persecuzione religiosa		46
5	Japanese (ja) 宗教的迫害		46
6	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		43
7	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		28
8	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		22
9	French (fr) Persécutions religieuses		21
10	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		20

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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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Religious persecution		4
2	Serbian (sr) Религијски прогони		2
3	Spanish (es) Persecución religiosa		1
4	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		1
5	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		1
6	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		0
7	Czech (cs) Náboženská perzekuce		0
8	Danish (da) Religiøs forfølgelse		0
9	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Religia persekutado		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		2 291
2	Persian (fa) آزار و اذیت دینی		953
3	Arabic (ar) اضطهاد ديني		551
4	Chinese (zh) 宗教迫害		393
5	Japanese (ja) 宗教的迫害		384
6	French (fr) Persécutions religieuses		303
7	Korean (ko) 종교 박해		225
8	Swedish (sv) Religiös förföljelse		161
9	Hungarian (hu) Vallásüldözés		111
10	German (de) Religiöse Verfolgung		85

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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

Simple English: #7595 09.2021

Global: #74092 12.2019

Best Rank

Simple English: #1209 08.2013

Global: #11045 10.2020

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