“It's easy to look at that film and say, ‘It's crazy to think people did that 300 years ago,'” said Daniel Mark, vice chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “But it's still going on today. If the film informs people of that, it'll have done a good thing.”
According to Pew Research Center's 2016 religious restrictions study, 24 percent of the 198 countries studied had high or very high levels of religious restriction as of 2014.
Yet when many Americans encounter the term “religious freedom” today they are often thinking or reading about a legal battle over a Christian business owner refusing to bake cakes for gay weddings or social media sparring over “Merry Christmas” vs. “Happy Holidays.”
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