Sentence examples for severe persecution from inspiring English sources

Severe persecution of any potential opposition increased.

Severe persecution continued for a generation under his son and grandson.

What gives him the strength to speak out despite severe persecution?

Indeed, the situation was worse, because now Christians suffered severe persecution for their faith.

Gardiner approved the severe persecution of Protestants that began early in 1554, but to his credit he tried unsuccessfully to save Cranmer and others from the stake.

In its homeland, Mesopotamia, it came under severe persecution by the priests of the Zoroastrian religion, who viewed Manichaeism as a dangerous heresy.

Benedict recalled "the severe persecutions suffered by Armenian Christians".

After 339 the Christians of Iran were subjected to severe persecutions at the hands of Shāpūr II and his successors.

He reached an agreement allowing the church to resume religious services in Mexico, where severe persecutions prompted the encyclical of 1926, and he made another agreement (1933), though short-lived, with Adolf Hitler's newly formed Nazi government in Germany, hoping to alleviate the difficulties confronting German Catholics.

Contemporary sources (John Malalas, Theophanes, John of Ephesus) tell of severe persecutions, even of men in high position.

The most severe persecutions have occurred in Iran, where over 200 Bahá'ís were executed between 1978 and 1998, and in Egypt.