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Cuba: Country Dossier January 2019 Open Doors International / World Watch Research Unit January 2019 [email protected] www.opendoorsanalytical.org Cuba – WWR Country Dossier – January 2019 World Watch List 2019 Total Total Total Total Total Private Family Community National Church Score Score Score Score Score Rank Country Violence life life life life life WWL WWL WWL WWL WWL 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 1 North Korea 16.7 16.7 16.7 16.7 16.7 10.9 94 94 92 92 92 2 Afghanistan 16.7 16.7 16.7 16.7 16.7 10.6 94 93 89 88 81 3 Somalia 16.3 16.7 16.6 16.5 16.4 8.9 91 91 91 87 90 4 Libya 15.3 15.0 15.1 16.0 16.3 9.6 87 86 78 79 76 5 Pakistan 14.3 14.1 13.9 15.0 13.2 16.7 87 86 88 87 79 6 Sudan 14.7 15.0 14.6 15.6 16.1 10.6 87 87 87 84 80 7 Eritrea 14.7 14.9 15.8 16.0 15.2 9.4 86 86 82 89 79 8 Yemen 16.6 16.3 16.4 16.7 16.7 3.1 86 85 85 78 73 9 Iran 14.0 14.3 14.3 15.8 16.5 10.4 85 85 85 83 80 10 India 12.9 13.0 13.5 14.8 13.2 15.2 83 81 73 68 62 11 Syria 13.6 14.0 13.1 13.8 14.2 13.0 82 76 86 87 83 12 Nigeria 12.3 11.8 13.4 12.9 12.9 16.7 80 77 78 78 78 13 Iraq 13.9 14.4 14.1 14.6 13.6 8.1 79 86 86 90 86 14 Maldives 15.2 15.5 13.5 15.9 16.7 1.1 78 78 76 76 78 15 Saudi Arabia 15.1 13.6 14.0 15.3 16.5 2.4 77 79 76 76 77 16 Egypt 11.7 13.2 10.7 13.2 11.0 15.9 76 70 65 64 61 17 Uzbekistan 15.4 12.9 13.9 12.3 15.9 3.1 74 73 71 70 69 18 Myanmar 11.4 11.8 13.3 12.1 11.8 11.1 71 65 62 62 60 19 Laos 13.0 9.1 14.2 14.7 14.9 4.6 71 67 64 58 58 20 Vietnam 12.7 8.2 12.7 13.5 14.2 9.1 70 69 71 66 68 Central Africa 21 10.2 9.7 11.9 10.6 11.1 16.1 70 61 58 59 67 Republic 22 Algeria 13.1 14.2 10.1 11.8 12.7 7.6 70 58 58 56 55 23 Turkmenistan 14.6 10.8 13.8 13.3 15.1 1.3 69 68 67 66 63 24 Mali 11.4 10.1 11.5 9.2 9.9 15.4 68 59 59 55 52 25 Mauritania 13.9 14.0 12.2 13.0 13.3 0.6 67 57 55 - 50 26 Turkey 12.4 11.1 10.7 13.2 10.9 7.2 66 62 57 55 52 27 China 10.4 8.0 10.3 11.8 14.5 10.0 65 57 57 57 57 28 Ethiopia 10.0 10.0 10.3 10.8 10.4 13.5 65 62 64 67 61 29 Tajikistan 13.8 11.9 11.6 12.1 12.9 2.4 65 65 58 58 50 30 Indonesia 10.6 11.1 11.3 10.2 9.3 12.0 65 59 55 55 50 31 Jordan 13.0 13.1 11.8 11.5 12.2 3.0 65 66 63 59 56 32 Nepal 12.4 11.4 10.6 10.9 11.9 7.0 64 64 - - - 33 Bhutan 12.9 11.1 12.3 12.4 14.0 0.9 64 62 61 56 56 34 Kazakhstan 13.2 10.8 10.3 12.2 13.5 3.1 63 63 56 55 51 35 Morocco 12.2 13.3 9.6 12.0 14.4 1.5 63 51 49 47 47 36 Brunei 13.4 14.3 10.5 10.3 13.4 0.7 63 64 64 61 58 37 Tunisia 12.1 13.2 10.7 11.2 12.0 3.3 63 62 61 58 55 38 Qatar 13.0 12.6 10.3 11.0 14.1 1.1 62 63 66 65 64 39 Mexico 8.3 7.5 12.2 10.2 9.7 13.5 61 59 57 56 55 40 Kenya 11.7 10.6 10.1 8.3 11.5 8.3 61 62 68 68 63 Russian 41 12.5 8.4 10.7 10.4 12.0 5.7 60 51 46 48 45 Federation 42 Malaysia 11.8 14.2 12.1 11.7 8.6 1.5 60 65 60 58 55 43 Kuwait 13.2 12.2 10.1 10.5 12.2 1.5 60 61 57 56 49 44 Oman 12.9 12.5 9.8 9.6 12.8 1.7 59 57 53 53 55 United Arab 45 12.8 12.0 9.1 10.5 12.2 1.9 58 58 55 55 49 Emirates 46 Sri Lanka 11.0 8.3 10.5 11.5 10.0 7.0 58 57 55 - 51 47 Colombia 7.9 7.6 11.8 9.4 8.5 12.6 58 56 53 55 55 48 Bangladesh 11.0 9.1 11.6 10.5 7.8 7.8 58 58 63 57 51 Palestinian 49 11.4 12.3 9.0 10.6 11.8 2.4 57 60 64 62 58 Territories 50 Azerbaijan 13.2 9.9 9.3 11.1 12.4 1.5 57 57 - 57 50 51 Comoros 11.7 11.5 9.1 9.9 13.9 0.4 56 - 56 56 56 52 Kyrgyzstan 12.7 9.9 10.9 9.2 11.9 1.9 56 - - - - 53 Djibouti 12.3 12.3 10.3 10.0 11.2 0.0 56 56 57 58 60 Democratic 54 Republic of the 5.6 6.7 9.3 7.4 10.3 16.1 55 - - - - Congo 55 Bahrain 11.9 12.2 8.6 10.2 10.2 1.5 55 57 54 54 - 56 Cameroon 9.9 7.3 10.0 7.8 7.5 11.3 54 - - - - 57 Tanzania 9.3 10.8 10.3 8.6 8.8 4.8 52 - 59 57 56 58 Niger 11.5 9.7 8.1 8.1 10.0 4.8 52 - - 53 - 59 Cuba 8.8 4.4 9.1 10.5 11.8 3.9 49 - - - - 60 Chad 11.5 8.2 9.0 8.0 8.7 3.0 48 - - - - 61 Burkina Faso 9.0 8.0 8.8 6.6 7.9 7.2 48 - - - - 62 Uganda 11.4 8.0 7.7 6.9 9.6 3.7 47 - - - - 63 Guinea 10.3 7.5 8.3 7.0 8.1 5.0 46 - - - - 64 South Sudan 5.7 1.5 7.5 5.8 8.0 15.0 44 - - - - 65 Mozambique 6.7 4.3 6.0 6.9 6.0 13.3 43 - - - - 66 Gambia 7.7 8.2 8.2 8.3 8.8 1.9 43 - - - - 67 Ivory Coast 9.8 8.7 8.2 5.5 6.4 4.3 43 - - - - 68 Burundi 5.1 5.8 9.7 9.2 9.6 3.3 43 - - - - 69 Angola 6.4 3.6 7.1 8.7 10.4 6.1 42 - - - - 70 Togo 8.8 6.7 8.5 7.1 8.4 2.0 42 - - - - 71 Venezuela 3.3 3.8 10.5 9.0 8.8 5.9 41 - - - - 72 Rwanda 5.3 4.4 6.7 7.8 10.1 6.7 41 - - - - 73 Nicaragua 2.3 3.6 6.4 8.9 7.9 11.9 41 - - - - 1 Cuba – WWR Country Dossier – January 2019 Cuba – Country Dossier January 2019 Copyright Notice No copyright - This report is the property of World Watch Research (WWR), the research department of Open Doors International. 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Contents World Watch List 2019 ............................................................................................................................ 1 Cuba – Country Dossier January 2019 .................................................................................................... 2 Copyright Notice .................................................................................................................................. 2 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 4 WWL 2019: Keys to understanding Cuba ................................................................................................ 5 Link for general background information ........................................................................................... 5 Recent country history ........................................................................................................................ 5 The religious landscape ....................................................................................................................... 5 The political landscape ........................................................................................................................ 5 The socio-economic landscape ........................................................................................................... 6 Concluding remarks ............................................................................................................................. 6 External Links - WWL 2019: Keys to understanding Cuba................................................................... 6 WWL 2019: Church History and Facts ..................................................................................................... 9 How many Christians? ......................................................................................................................... 9 How did Christians get there? ............................................................................................................. 9 What church networks exist today?.................................................................................................... 9 Religious context ............................................................................................................................... 10 Notes on the current situation .......................................................................................................... 10 External Links - WWL 2019: Church History and Facts ...................................................................... 10 WWL 2019: Short & Simple Persecution Profile ................................................................................... 11 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 11 What type of persecution dominates? .............................................................................................. 11 Who is driving persecution? .............................................................................................................. 11 What it results in ............................................................................................................................... 11 Violence ............................................................................................................................................. 11 Examples of specific persecution in the reporting period ................................................................ 12 2 Cuba – WWR Country Dossier – January 2019 External Links - WWL 2019: Short & Simple Persecution Profile ...................................................... 12 WWL 2019: Persecution Dynamics ....................................................................................................... 13 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 13 Position on World Watch List (WWL) ................................................................................................ 13 Persecution engines .........................................................................................................................