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Global Church Pulse
Four sourced facts and a map. Every number shows who published it, what it measures and when.
388M+Christians facing high levels of persecution and discriminationSource: Open Doors International (World Watch Research), 2024–2025
28.8%Share of the world’s population that is Christian, 2020Source: Pew Research Center, 2020
287Public church listingsParticipating churches (joined GCN): 0. Includes churches listed from public sources. Only churches that joined GCN themselves are counted as participating, shown separately. Not the number of churches in the world.Source: From this network’s own records
None yetReviewed service opportunities openSource: From this network’s own records
- Ranks 1–15 on the Open Doors World Watch List 2026
- Ranks 16–50
- Not in the Top 50, or no data
Ranks come from Open Doors, an advocacy organization. A rank is a pressure score, not a count of incidents and not a judgment on any religion or people.
View this layer as a table
| Rank | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Korea | Not stated in the source text |
| 2 | Somalia | Not stated in the source text |
| 3 | Yemen | Not stated in the source text |
| 4 | Sudan | Not stated in the source text |
| 5 | Eritrea | 90 |
| 6 | Syria | 90 |
| 7 | Nigeria | 89 |
| 8 | Pakistan | Not stated in the source text |
| 9 | Libya | Not stated in the source text |
| 10 | Iran | Not stated in the source text |
| 11 | Afghanistan | Not stated in the source text |
| 12 | India | Not stated in the source text |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | Not stated in the source text |
| 14 | Myanmar | Not stated in the source text |
| 15 | Mali | Not stated in the source text |
| 16 | Burkina Faso | 80 |
| 17 | China | 79 |
| 18 | Iraq | Not stated in the source text |
| 19 | Maldives | Not stated in the source text |
| 20 | Algeria | 77 |
| 21 | Mauritania | Not stated in the source text |
| 22 | Central African Rep. | Not stated in the source text |
| 23 | Morocco | Not stated in the source text |
| 24 | Cuba | Not stated in the source text |
| 25 | Uzbekistan | Not stated in the source text |
| 26 | Niger | Not stated in the source text |
| 27 | Tajikistan | Not stated in the source text |
| 28 | Laos | Not stated in the source text |
| 29 | DR Congo | 72 |
| 30 | Mexico | Not stated in the source text |
| 31 | Tunisia | Not stated in the source text |
| 32 | Nicaragua | Not stated in the source text |
| 33 | Bangladesh | Not stated in the source text |
| 34 | Bhutan | Not stated in the source text |
| 35 | Turkmenistan | Not stated in the source text |
| 36 | Ethiopia | 70 |
| 37 | Cameroon | Not stated in the source text |
| 38 | Oman | Not stated in the source text |
| 39 | Mozambique | Not stated in the source text |
| 40 | Kyrgyzstan | Not stated in the source text |
| 41 | Turkey | Not stated in the source text |
| 42 | Egypt | Not stated in the source text |
| 43 | Comoros | Not stated in the source text |
| 44 | Qatar | Not stated in the source text |
| 45 | Kazakhstan | Not stated in the source text |
| 46 | Nepal | Not stated in the source text |
| 47 | Colombia | Not stated in the source text |
| 48 | Chad | Not stated in the source text |
| 49 | Jordan | Not stated in the source text |
| 50 | Brunei | Not stated in the source text |
How to read this map
- Choose a layer above the map. Each layer shows one kind of information.
- A hatched area means we have no approved data there. It does not mean zero.
- Select a country to see its context, recent stories, and what the network can offer there.