religious groups" -- including five out of seven of the major religious groupings -- including Jews, Christians, Buddhists and adherents of folk or traditional religions. Not all religions, however, faced harassment in the same way. "Christians," the survey reports, "were harassed by government officials or organisations in 95 countries in the year ending in mid-2010 and by social groups or individuals in 77 countries. Muslims also were more likely to be harassed by governments (74 countries) than by social groups or individuals (64 countries). Jews, by contrast, experienced social harassment in many more countries than they faced government harassment." The survey marks 197 countries and territories using two indices: a government restrictions index that marks countries on a list of 20 indicators of religious restrictions, including efforts to prohibit the practise of various faiths, and a social hostilities index. This second measure attempts to calculate levels of religious hostility by individuals and groups against rival sects and religions. Using these two scales the survey's authors identified an increase of countries with "very high" levels of government restrictions from 10 in 2007 to 18 in 2010. In that period 10 countries were added to the list of countries with very high levels of restriction -- Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Indonesia, Maldives, Russia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen -- while only two, Brunei and Turkey, were actually downgraded. The report adds: "The number of countries with very high social hostilities also rose, from 10 as of mid-2007 to 15 as of mid-2010, as