The constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion is greatly diminished by a vast Bureau of Religious Affairs and Religion Police bureaucracies. Unregistered churches and ethnic minority Christians still suffer harassment, discrimination and sometimes outright persecution.
RELIGIONS | POPULATION % | ADHERENTS | ANNUAL GROWTH |
---|---|---|---|
Buddhist | 52.5% | 51,538,635 | |
Christian | 9.4% | 9,227,870 | 2.3 |
Evangelical | 1.8% | 1,767,039 | 2.6 |