Sentence examples for violent persecution from inspiring English sources
Shortly after Sixtus' election, the Roman emperor Valerian promulgated his first decree against the Christians, and a violent persecution ensued.
America is a country with an extreme mix of ethnic, religious and lifestyle groups and has a history of violent persecution.
Today, Christians are a minority, and many feel increasingly beleaguered, with the rise of militant Islam and the violent persecution of Iraqi Christians.
A campaign of violent persecution by the Catholic Church had led dozens of Jews to commit suicide inside the synagogue, rather than renounce their faith.
Those who call for a boycott of World Pride Jerusalem choose to ignore the violent persecution of LGBT people in Palestine.
The prince urged listeners this Christmas to remember "how the story of the Nativity unfolds with the fleeing of the holy family to escape violent persecution".
The very best movies of the year are works of hard-won freedom, reflecting the exertion to overcome external or internal obstacles, horrific and violent persecutions, or the oppressive psychological weight of personal habits or inherited styles.
The Polish yeshivas suffered a debilitating blow in the violent persecutions of 1648 49, but by the latter part of the 18th century a mystical and pietistic movement called Ḥasidism won over large masses of Polish and Ukrainian Jews and in due course gave rise to new yeshivas.
The Jains suffered isolated violent persecutions by these groups, but the main factor responsible for the decline of their religion was the success of Hindu reformist movements.
Telling the story of Fr Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit who follows his missionary vocation to Japan at a time of violent religious persecution, Silence is a compelling historical fiction, a potent distillation of the paradoxes and ambiguities of faith and, from a Christian author, a daring challenge to religious orthodoxy.
The 40-year-old refugee left his home and family behind in Guinea last Christmas Eve, fleeing what he describes as violent political persecution.
