Though the right to religious belief is absolute and there must be no religious thought inquisition by authorities, the practice of religion does have some legal limitations. While there are variations from country to country, the best worldwide consensus is that religious liberty restrictions must be based on the nondiscriminatory compelling interest of the necessary rights of others, involving public order, health, and nonsectarian morality. Of course, globalization can have a negative impact on religious liberty. A first example is the worldwide phenomenon of religious fundamentalism and extremism, which has been spreading like a cancer in most major religions. The anticult movement in one country feeds upon unproven accusations and allegations in other countries.
Secularism can have worldwide negative religious liberty consequences.
The intention is to squeeze religion out of the fabric of society by first taking on religious minorities and then, when the time is right, major religious bodies and finally religion as a whole. Antiproselytism too received a global dimension in the nineties. These two rights can on occasion find themselves in conflict. In order to deal with this issue, a group of experts met in Spain in 1999 and early 2000 under the auspices of the International Religious Liberty Association in cooperation with Spain's Ministry of Justice. This board of experts hammered out a concise and balanced declaration outlining principles of proper dissemination of religious beliefs endeavoring to balance and bring into juxtaposition the above two rights.