The phrase "religious protest" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to any kind of organized expression of religious objection or dissent. For example, "The religious protest against the proposed amendment was well-attended."
What had started as a religious protest movement turned into a full-blown insurgency.
(In reverse order: being paid to play in a first-person shooter game; a religious protest group along the lines of the Westboro Baptist church; Walmart's mutant offspring; and God alone knows).
District judge David Bunning had jailed her for contempt of court after she withheld all marriage licenses in religious protest at the national legalization of same-sex marriage by the US supreme court in June.
The demonstrations over Golgota Picnic come after a rise in fundamentalist religious protest action against some of France's most high-profile theatres, including pelting the audience with eggs, letting off stinkbombs and the invasion of the stage of Paris's esteemed Théâtre de la Ville mid-performance by outraged Catholics carrying banners reading "Stop Christianophobia".
As an alternative starting point for the tradition of civil disobedience, Professor Perry presents religious protest, first by dissenters (like the Baptists and Quakers) to an established church (Puritan or Anglican), then against the removal of Native Americans from their homeland in the South.
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Adore Life kicks back at the church on Evil, a song written in response to widespread religious protests against France's legalisation of gay marriage in 2013.
Just as autocratic Chinese governments have always justified their monopoly of power by claiming superior virtue, peasant rebellions and religious protests have done the same thing.
Even so, a cursory examination of Nigeria's recent history should have told her that her contest might inspire violent religious protests that could damage her brand by association.
Although officially stopped in August 1941 as a result of popular and religious protests, the killing continued in hospitals and clinics through the systematic negligence of patients, food deprivation and medical overdoses.
These events, along with religious protests in Britain about "Jerry Springer: The Opera" and the scandal over the evangelical preacher Ted Haggard in the United States, all contributed to Mr. Newson's desire to explore the intersection of religion and homosexuality.
