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AFGHANISTAN
According to the latest International Religious Freedom Report from the U.S. State Department, there is no public Christian Church left in Afghanistan. The last one was razed in March 2010.

This reflects the state of religious freedom in this country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew the Islamist Taliban regime. US taxpayers have spent $440 billion to support Afghanistan's new government and more than 1,700 military personnel have died serving there.

The new Afghan Constitution states that Islam is "the religion of the state" and that "no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam" but it also says that "followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provision of the law".

The report also says that the right to change one's religion is not respected either in law or practice. Conversion from Islam is considered apostasy and is punishable by death under some interpretations of Islamic law. More than 99% of the Afghan population is either Sunni (80%) or Shia (19%) Muslim.

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