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  2. The NGO Media Development Foundation documented 98 instances of religiously intolerant statements on television, online, and in print by media representatives, political parties, clergy, public organizations, and others during the year, the majority of them expressing anti-Muslim sentiment, compared with 117 such incidents in 2021.
  3. Georgia's State Agency for Religious Affairs (SARI) reported only five GOC clergy and one church remained operational in South Ossetia. ... was the subject of anti-Turkish and anti-Muslim protests in 2014. The GOC did not offer any formal religious studies classes in public institutions. Although the GOC had the right to have direct ...
  4. NGOs and some Muslim community leaders again said the government continued to favor and influence the state-funded group All Muslims of All Georgia (AMAG). In August, TDI partially appealed a 2022 ruling by the Tbilisi City Court in favor of two Seventh-day Adventist university applicants who challenged scheduling of required exams on Saturday ...
  5. during the year, the majority of them expressing anti-Muslim sentiment, compared with 117 such incidents in 2021. According to the TDI, there were documented instances of antisemitic statements being shared on social media, including two statements of others that GOC clergy reposted.
  6. Some Muslim community leaders said the government continued to influence and favor the state-funded religious group All Muslims of All Georgia (AMAG). Religious groups, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and others said Muslim communities faced government resistance to issuing construction permits for places of worship.
  7. A September 15 article from the University of Buenos Aires' student media criticized the lack of Muslim viewpoints in local media during events in Afghanistan. The article, noting a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment, described an incident in which a Muslim student was heckled as she stepped from a bus with, "Be careful, she has a bomb!"
  8. The U.S. government estimates the total population at 4.9 million (July 2018 estimate). According to the 2014 census, GOC members constitute 83.4 percent of the population, followed by Muslims at 10.7 percent and members of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) at 2.9 percent. According to the census, Roman Catholics, Yezidis, Greek Orthodox, Jews, growing numbers of "nontraditional ...
  9. condemned as anti-Semitic a sermon by Georgian Orthodox Metropolitan Ioane Gamrekeli in which he referred to nonbelievers as "a lineage of infidels." The Georgian ambassador to Israel said Gamrekeli's words had been misinterpreted, and the GOC subsequently issued a statement condemning anti-Semitism.
  10. Muslim groups include ethnic Georgian Muslims in Adjara and Chechen Kists in the northeast, both of which are predominantly Sunni. Ethnic Georgian Sunni Muslims are also present in the south-central region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. Ethnic Armenians belong primarily to the AAC and constitute the majority of the population in Samtskhe-Javakheti.
  11. 16 percent Muslim, 8 percent atheists or nonbelievers, 8 percent followers of the pre-Christian Abkhazian religion, and 1 percent Jehovah's Witnesses, Jews, or adherents of other religions. The remaining 7 percent listed no preference. According to a 2015 census reportedly conducted by the de facto government of

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