The actual question is not exactly What is the current most persecuted religion in the world?, which I stated as such due to common parlance, but it is Who are the current most persecuted people or religious group in the world? since religions are concepts to which people hold and the people are persecuted.
Also, note that persecution comes in very many forms from having monuments/sculptures/statues destroyed, to being subjectively told that you are not very nice, to being kept from voicing an opinion to being murdered/martyred.
Well, the most persecuted by murder/martyr religious people today are Christians—which is why you do not hear about it on mainstream media Barack Obama may have mentioned something vague about it once in almost a decade and Donald Trump has, at least, made references to it—see What does Trump’s executive order on immigration ban REALLY say?
The more things change, the more they stay the same or,
as Solomon put it, “There is nothing new under the Sun.”
Here is a rundown of some of the stats.
In 2015 AD circa 105,000 were mass or serial murdered worldwide—see
In 2016 AD the number is circa 90,000, yet info is not available from China and India so the number is very likely higher.
An estimated 1/3 of the Christians—who are being murdered at the rate of about one every six minutes—were murdered by Muslims.
Other were murdered by “state” and “non-state” actors.
Some 70% of the deaths took place in African tribal villages in Africa often due to Christians not wanting to battle within local conflicts.
Within the decade dating from 2005 AD to 2015 AD some 900,000 Christian martyred worldwide.
Beyond the rare underground news stories your best bet for following up on this may be The Center for the Study of Global Christianity.
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