Grant us the courage to stop all forms of persecution, to speak up on behalf of the persecuted, and to rectify historic injustices.
Her family was part of the Puritan "Great Migration" – under religious persecution – to "New England".
Now he is being demanded, under the threat of prosecution and persecution, to breach that trust".
But this should be seen, he continued, in light of the "tyranny and persecution" to which they were subjected.
The 13 colonies, Waldman says, were indeed Christian polities, most of them indulging in persecution to uphold their ideals.
Mr. Chen's desperate escape last month from persecution to American protection has embarrassed China's leaders and cast new shadows on their commitment to the rule of law.
The controversial columnist has faced calls to apologise over a dehumanising comment piece that compared people fleeing war and persecution to cockroaches.
Many European Protestants fled religious persecution to Norwich, Norfolk's capital, in the late 16th century, making it a trilingual city for 300 years.
The street artist Marcus Crocker has made tiny models of artists who fled persecution to mark the British Red Cross Refugee Weekk.
"We should be doing more to allow families who have been driven from their homes by war, violence and persecution to be reunited in a place of sanctuary.
And Egyptian society must come to grips with the broader circumstances that allowed Mr. Nabil's detention and persecution to go largely unnoticed.
