{"id":6633,"date":"2026-01-10T04:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/freedom-of-religion-or-belief-in-the-sahelian-countries-of-burkina-faso-cameroon-and-chad\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T04:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:48:03","slug":"freedom-of-religion-or-belief-in-the-sahelian-countries-of-burkina-faso-cameroon-and-chad","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/freedom-of-religion-or-belief-in-the-sahelian-countries-of-burkina-faso-cameroon-and-chad\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Sahelian Countries of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Chad"},"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\">Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Sahelian Countries of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Chad <\/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-18718\" 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>This report describes serious violations to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) conditions in three Sahelian countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Chad. These countries suffer some of the world\u2019s highest death rates from nonstate actor violence, which often affects religious communities in ways that restrict FoRB. Insurgent groups that invoke religion to justify violence &#8211; such as the Islamic State in the Sahel Province (ISSP), Jama\u2019at Ahl al-Sunna lid-Dawah wa\u2019al-Jihad (JAS-Boko Haram) and Jama\u2019at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM)\u2014continue to perpetrate serious violations against virtually all religious communities in the region, and in recent years they have significantly increased their destructive activity. Additionally, governments have sometimes responded to insurgent group activity by targeting innocent Muslim communities with indiscriminate arrests and violence by security forces.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn-primary single-cta-btn\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025%20Issue%20Update%20Sahel_0.pdf\">View PDF<\/a><\/p><\/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\/publications\/freedom-religion-or-belief-sahelian-countries-burkina-faso-cameroon-and-chad?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Sahelian Countries of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Chad This report describes serious violations to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) conditions in three Sahelian countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Chad. These countries suffer some of the world\u2019s highest death rates from nonstate actor violence, which often affects religious communities in ways that restrict&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":6634,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[787,790,600,572,789,791,766,786,788],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-6633","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-belief","tag-burkina","tag-cameroon","tag-chad","tag-countries","tag-faso","tag-freedom","tag-religion","tag-sahelian","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-11\/Thumbnail%20for%20Publication%20%28Presentation%29%20%281%29.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}