Sentence examples for persecuted communities from inspiring English sources

Later, $25 million will be disbursed to help "persecuted communities" in Iraq, primarily Christians on the Nineveh Plains and Yazidis in Sinjar.

In just 10 years after the start of India's life as an independent republic, its scheduled castes and tribes — historically persecuted communities — would no longer need the affirmative action policy of reserving seats for them in India's parliament and legislative bodies.

The international community can and must do better to protect persecuted communities.

They attended a meeting of the Commission on Black-Jewish Concerns, where Goldberg said the black-Jewish alliance was an old one of the two most persecuted communities and Paterson said "Actions are more important than words"(referring to his being black and the running mate of Goldberg - a Jew).

Yazidis are part of a Kurdish minority group in Iraq that are among the most persecuted communities in the country.

Indeed, since World War I, Lebanon has hosted several persecuted communities and populations, victims of conflicts in the region.

Moving to a recorded score by Eugene Lester, the ensemble resembled a lamenting and persecuted community.

But once he called for the public murder of members of a persecuted community?

At that time, Islam had grown from a tiny and persecuted community in Arabia into a powerful empire stretching from North Africa to Central Asia.

This stance is likely to embolden African leaders who have persecuted LGBT communities in their own countries, such as Yoweri Museveni's Uganda.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox leaders joined forces on Wednesday (May 7) to call for an end to the silence over persecuted Christian communities in Egypt, Iraq and Syria.