Sentence examples for and persecuted in the from inspiring English sources

In Italy, the exotic Casaleggio/Grillo Internet campaign is being demonized and persecuted in the remnants of the national press.

Take any group that people shunned and persecuted in the ancient world and Jesus would befriend them.

When what makes you feel good and safe at home becomes what makes you feel bad and persecuted in the culture at large, it causes mixed feelings about the self and one's own culture.

Perhaps it was inevitable that the 27-year-old "Rimbaud lacking in genius" (as Pasolini archly dubbed himself) should begin his Roman days among the despised and persecuted in a run-down flat in the Jewish ghetto.

The service is provided by the Falun Gong, the spiritual organization outlawed and persecuted in China.

Wolves are now reviled and persecuted in a land where they once roamed wild and free prior to European colonization.

The few independent TV and radio stations in Serbia are being harassed and persecuted in order finally to be closed down entirely.

"There are huge advantages to having pluralistic societies – everything from the economy to the way people develop educationally, and therefore we all have an interest in making sure that Christian communities do continue to feel that they belong and are not persecuted in the places where this religion was born.

As books and films have recorded, gays and lesbians were viciously persecuted in the first decades of the Castro revolution.

Gays and lesbians in particular are persecuted in the SADC, and South Africa would do well to share the lessons of its human rights approach with sexual minorities.

Paganism continued and Christians were still persecuted in the city, forcing St. Porphyrius to undertake more measures.