Is blasphemy illegal in El Salvador?
Criminal offense
Insulting religion is a crime punishable by imprisonment.
El Salvador is one of 30 countries classified “Criminal offense” for blasphemy — 56% of the 54 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Blasphemy law
- Last checked
- 17 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- United States
- No blasphemy law Blasphemy is not a crime in the United States due to First Amendment protections.
- Brazil
- Criminal offense Publicly vilifying religious worship is a crime punishable by prison or fine.
- Canada
- No blasphemy law Blasphemous libel was repealed from the Criminal Code in 2018, removing the criminal offense.
- Iceland
- No blasphemy law Iceland repealed its blasphemy law in 2015, making blasphemy no longer a criminal offense.
- Mauritania
- Death penalty possible Apostasy, defined as an act of indecency toward Islam, carries the death penalty.
- Ireland
- No blasphemy law The blasphemy offence was removed by referendum in 2018 and repealed in 2020.
Other laws in El Salvador
- Holocaust Denial
- No specific law
- Conversion Therapy
- No ban
A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.