Sentence examples for which are persecuted from inspiring English sources

A promissory aspect: "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5 10).

The eight "blessed" groups in Matthew are "the poor in spirit," "they that mourn," "the meek," "they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness," "the merciful," "the pure in heart," "the peacemakers," and "they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake" (King James Version).

Many of the worshippers at the shrine in Kabul were Hazaras, a mostly Shia ethnic minority which was persecuted by the Taliban regime.

Germany has already sent humanitarian aid to the Kurdish region to help refugees displaced by IS, which is persecuting Shia Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and other minorities.

It's a gospel that dreads a future in which Christians are persecuted for sharing their faith, but puts no real emphasis on sharing it now.

"I think a lot of this hysteria and paranoia is being fed by organisations like J-Flag, in their zeal to assert themselves and assert homosexuality in Jamaica, and also the fear that they are persecuted, which they are.

The Jewish experience in Iraq also reflects a story of a once flourishing community which has been persecuted to near extinction.

Albin Kurti, an ethnic Albanian activist who is under house arrest, contends that Kosovar Albanians are wedded to their Albanian identity because they have long defined themselves by the ethnicity for which they were persecuted during decades of authoritarian regimes.

The Islamist organization, which had been persecuted for decades, performed well in all post-revolutionary elections, and in June of last year Mohamed Morsi, a Brotherhood member, became Egypt's first democratically elected President.

He believes that Isis is weaker than it was at the height of its success, when it had won an unbroken series of military victories and was generally supported by Iraq's Sunni community, which had been persecuted by the former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during his eight years in power.

This challenge of pluralism is of particular relevance to the Ismaili community, which has been persecuted during various chapters of its long history.