Sentence examples for greater persecution from inspiring English sources

As a group that faces greater persecution than most in mainstream society, the trans community has perhaps been one of the bigger benefactors of the scene's progressiveness.

Because they consider Satan to be one of God's creations, many Muslims denigrate the Yazidis as devil worshippers and they have often faced greater persecution than other religious minorities.

Shīʿites have suffered the greatest persecution.

His reign is also noted for the last great persecution of the Christians.

A "Denn" is a prison, and Bunyan wrote most of the book in Bedford county gaol, having been arrested for his beliefs during the "Great Persecution" of 1660-1690.

"Today we see in a really terrifying way that the greatest persecution of the church does not come from the enemies outside, but is born from the sin in the church," the pope said.

"Today we see in a truly terrifying way that the greatest persecution of the church doesn't come from enemies on the outside but is born from the sins within the church," the 83-year-old said.

Benedict himself has veered from defensiveness to contrition, saying in March that the faithful should not be intimidated by "the petty gossip of dominant opinion" — and then in May telling reporters that "the greatest persecution of the church does not come from the enemies outside, but is born from the sin in the church".

Christianity he encountered in court circles as well as in the cities of the East; and from 303, during the great persecution of the Christians that began at the court of Diocletian at Nicomedia and was enforced with particular intensity in the eastern parts of the empire, Christianity was a major issue of public policy.

Africa had produced martyrs even in the years immediately prior to the Great Persecution.

The Diocletianic or Great Persecution was the last and most severe persecution of Christians in the Roman empire.