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They unleashed a wave of persecution that continues to jail opposition leaders under implausible charges of "inciting social discord" and to silence independent media.

Afterward, multitudes of ethnic Germans were expelled from Eastern Europe and many of the Jews in Poland fled from a new wave of persecution there.

This is the place where thousands of people were executed in the wave of persecution that Stalin launched in 1937, turning against many of his own loyal supporters.

"We can consider ourselves in a wave of persecution," Bishop Anba Macarius, of the Minya diocese, who survived an assassination attempt in 2013, said on Thursday.

The reaction of the Mormon Church to this new wave of persecution was, initially, to take refuge in secrecy once again.

A wave of persecution pushed thousands of Brothers into exile, seeding fresh cells in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait and as far afield as Europe and America.

The great bishop-theologian Cyprian of Carthage was martyred during the next great wave of persecutions (257 259), which were aimed at eradicating the leaders of the church.

Some of the churches attacked in the most recent wave of persecutions have been official and state-sanctioned members of the "Three-Self" movement, a Protestant denomination that is meant to be entirely under government control (many of the churches have CCTV cameras facing the pulpits, to check the sermons for political unorthodoxy).

In 1950, a new wave of persecutions began in West Germany.

Many of them, like TV evangelist, Pat Robertson, said that because of this decision, there will be a national wave of persecutions of Christians.

All the while, from afar, Mr. Hosseiny followed the waves of persecution in Iran.