Sentence examples for religious crusade from inspiring English sources

"This is a religious crusade," his paper wrote.

Boko Haram's religious crusade in northern Nigeria has been perceived as pointless nihilism to Nigerians across the religious spectrum.

Now two former employees are accussing Erik Prince (pictured), Blackwater's boss, of wanting to start a religious crusade against Muslims.

Franco's moral justification for the campaign that sparked the Civil War was that he was undertaking a religious crusade as Defender of the Faith.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council in Washington said the biblical references violated the nation's values and would stoke the fires of extremists who accuse the United States of carrying out a religious crusade in Asia and the Middle East.

The traditional elites, on the other hand, tended to see the struggle in terms of a religious crusade against the Muslims, and their national consciousness was less fully articulated.

Wichita has a long history of religious crusades.

As a means to justify indiscriminate killing and to overcome the natural aversion against taking one's own life, militant groups (and the religious leaders and interpreters who speak for them) use faith to elevate their causes to religious crusades.

After being published in a Methodist monthly that year, "Blessed Assurance" reached a wide audience when the evangelist Dwight Moody made it a feature in his wildly popular religious crusades.

Evangelical fervor thrives on depression, so it's no surprise that America's economic free fall and plummeting national morale have coincided with a sharp rise in religious crusading.

It was an age of religious crusades, where Christians and Muslims were killing each other in the name of God.