Borders are closed to foreign missionaries or incoming religious ideas. When nationalism unites with religious fundamentalism, you get an explosive mixture of such power that it can blow religious liberty to smithereens, and right out of the twenty-first century. Antireligious laicity wants to squeeze religion out of society, or at least public life. It thus takes after and attacks the minority religions. Today the problem is largely one of discrimination, but it shows signs of evolving into grave violations of religious freedom.
Proselytism is a growing controversy, especially in Eastern Europe.
Some churches have been losing members, both to the magnetic force of secularism, and to evangelistic inroads by other religious groups. Rather than thinking in terms of what they may be doing wrong, some majority old line churches use the bogeyman of proselytism to protect themselves, and they run to the government for legislative and other help in bolstering their defenses, and achieving what they cannot otherwise realize in the free market of religious ideas. On the other hand, it is just as wrong to force people, through psychological, social, or even physical threats of violence, to remain members of a church or religion. The right to change religion, though part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is very much under attack. Everyone has and should have the right to convince others of the rightness of his or her belief.