Sentence examples for persecution being from inspiring English sources

The persecution being directed against Christians in the Middle East is a crime against civilisation as well as humanity.

Some campaigners and church leaders acknowledged the danger of religious persecution being seen as a modern-day clash of civilisations, a titanic struggle between Islam and Christianity, carrying the risk of polarising people of different faiths.

These are only a couple of mild examples of religious persecution being faced today.

Because apparently the member for Monmouth's annual continental pleasure-cruise is on the same order of things as someone fleeing persecution being able to eat every day.

Breitbart.com, Fox News, and other right-wing and Christian websites began reporting on the horrible persecution being faced by Christians in the military who, unable to bash the gays anymore, had had their religious freedom taken away!

For the Jews of that region, it had been a long history of persecution, being massacred by Cossacks in the name of Orthodox Christianity beginning in the 1600s, being blamed for the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and being banned from education and professions by the May Laws for 30 years after.

The object of persecution is persecution.

Their persecution is nothing new.

Persecution is as old as man.

Yet the memories of persecution are tangible.

However, persecution is still common.