{"id":7758,"date":"2026-01-28T16:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/country-update-bahrain\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:30:05","slug":"country-update-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/country-update-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Update: Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"block-layout-region\">\n<div id=\"block-herointernalpageblock\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-hero-internal-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero_wrapper custom-hero  internal-hero-js-adjust\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 3%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), url(\" https: www.uscirf.gov themes custom uscirf2020 assets images defaulthero.png\"); background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h1 class=\"internal-hero-title\">Country Update: Bahrain <\/h1>\n<div class=\"custom-breadcrumb hidden\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"insertNavHere\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"container\">\n              <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-uscirf2020-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"basic-page\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-section paragraph-unique-16257\" style=\"\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-animation-delay=\"0.3\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"single-container row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"full-content\">\n<p>Click here for the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2020%20Bahrain%20Country%20Update_0.pdf\">Bahrain Country Update<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This country update examines religious freedom conditions in Bahrain. Throughout 2020, Bahrain continued to systematically restrict religious freedom for its Shi\u2019a Muslim population. The government arrested Shi\u2019a religious figures and imposed restrictions on the observance of the Ashura holiday beyond reasonable and lawful restrictions to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Shi\u2019a prisoners in Bahrain also continued to be denied access to religious texts and had religious items confiscated despite a prison visit by the National Institute for Human Rights in August 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-taxonomytermview\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-taxonomy-term-view\">\n<div class=\"content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publication\/country-update-bahrain?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country Update: Bahrain Click here for the\u00a0Bahrain Country Update\u00a0 This country update examines religious freedom conditions in Bahrain. Throughout 2020, Bahrain continued to systematically restrict religious freedom for its Shi\u2019a Muslim population. The government arrested Shi\u2019a religious figures and imposed restrictions on the observance of the Ashura holiday beyond reasonable and lawful restrictions to prevent the spread of the COVID-19&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":7759,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[1518,544,513],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-7758","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bahrain","tag-country","tag-update","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-12\/bahrain.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}