Sentence examples for religious prosecution from inspiring English sources

For several other cases, religious prosecution provides an angle for a family's narrative.

Diplomats and human rights officials noted that other protests against religious prosecution in Iran, notably against the Bahai minority, had been carried out much more quietly.

The oldest European settlement in the Eastern Caribbean -- colonized in 1538 by French Huguenots fleeing religious prosecution -- it was the capital of the French-ruled northern part of the island until 1713, when Britain extended its reach over all of St. Kitts.

The bodies are believed to be mainly Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar who come to Thailand to find work and escape religious prosecution, according to Reuters. .

The Irish came here to escape famine and religious prosecution by Cromwell, the Quakers came here to escape religious prosecution both in England--and even in puritan Massachusetts: the Quakers were the first to petition their government in the new world, earning the right to religious freedom and quite possibly being the impetus for that famous entry in the first amendment.

Although President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has attempted to use the Copts for his political advantage, "the Egyptian government has not adequately protected religious minorities" from discrimination, prosecution, and violence.

Prosecutions of this character easily could degenerate into religious persecution.

Will you protect Christians worried about facing prosecution for their religious beliefs?

The defendants' barristers argued that the family was not as strictly religious or intolerant as the prosecution claimed.

Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi, an influential cleric, said Hashemi had committed a religious crime and should face prosecution, while the judiciary chief, Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, labelled her behaviour as antisocial.

The council's edict, known as a fatwa, is not legally binding, but it is nonetheless adding to growing political, ethnic and religious tensions prompted by the prosecution of Jakarta's popular governor, who is Christian and ethnic Chinese, for blasphemy.