Persecutions According to the New Testament, Christians were subject to various persecutions from the beginning.

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When the persecution had begun to subside, Dionysius was raised to the office of Bishop of Rome.

Under the Heresy Acts, numerous Protestants were executed in the Marian persecutions.

The Ahmadiyah followers in Indonesia have been experiencing a series of prosecutions in the country.

Unlike other migrants, their journey is fraught with even greater persecution and harassment.

Protestant Reformers still faced persecution, particularly over objections to Henry's annulment.

Various crimes such as vandalism, arson, assault, shootings, harassment, and threats in numerous places were documented.

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Reasons for the spread of Christianity In spite of these at times intense persecutions, the Christian religion continued its spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin.

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The first wave of persecutions targeted primarily the princely clans of Russia, notably the influential families of Suzdal .

In 1936, a Confessing Church envoy protested to Hitler against the religious persecutions and human rights abuses.

Although the cross was known to the early Christians, the crucifix did not appear in use until the 5th century.

In 1576 a series of persecutions began on the part of the older observant Carmelite order against Teresa, her friends, and her reforms.

During the second Iconoclasm, his family suffered persecution since his father, Sergios, was a prominent iconophile.

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

As an immediate gesture of goodwill towards his supporters, Nerva publicly swore that no senators would be put to death as long as he remained in office.

Sephardi Jews, therefore, encompasses Jews descended from those Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula as Jews by the expiration of the respective decreed deadlines.

In the late twenties, he ran from political persecution and fled to France and later to Latin America, until he settled in Brazil.

As the Báb's teachings spread, which the Islamic clergy saw as a threat, his followers came under increased persecution and torture.

Furthermore, Sein has reached out to the Karen, Kachin, and other ethnic minorities groups whose members have suffered decades of official persecution and mistreatment.

In the 4th and 5th centuries, the Donatists of North Africa maintained a similar belief about Christians who had lapsed under the pressures of persecution.

After enduring persecution from the pagan tribes for 13 years, Muhammad emigrated (see Hijra) in 622 with his companions, the Muhajirun , to Yathrib (later called Medina).

Catherine adopted a moderate stance and spoke up against the Guise persecutions, though she had no particular sympathy for the Huguenots, whose beliefs she never shared.

Lastly, hopes of trade with Spain evaporated when Hasekura communicated that the Spanish King would not enter an agreement as long as persecutions were occurring in the rest of the country.

The almost total absence from Christian monuments of the period of persecutions of the plain, unadorned cross except in the disguised form of the anchor, is notable.

Your Excellency,We, the undersigned, are writing to you to express our great concern about the recent persecutions and prosecutions of the women s rights defenders in Iran.

If the Normans could send their cavalry against the shield wall and then draw the English into more pursuits, breaks in the English line might form.

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Post Apostolic Church The post apostolic period concerns the time after the death of the apostles (roughly 100 AD) until persecutions ended with the legalisation of Christian worship under Emperors Constantine the Great and Licinius.

The history of antisemitism includes the First Crusade which resulted in the massacre of Jews the Spanish Inquisition (led by Torquemada) and the Portuguese Inquisition, with their persecution and autos da fé against the New Christians and Marrano Jews the Bohdan Chmielnicki Cossack massacres in Ukraine the Pogroms backed by the Russian Tsars as well as expulsions from Spain, Portugal, England, France, Germany, and other countries in which the Jews had settled.

Because news of these persecutions arrived in Europe during Hasekura's embassy, European rulers especially the King of Spain became very reluctant to respond favorably to Hasekura's trade and missionary proposals.

Therefore, superficially speaking, whereas refugees are forced to leave their countries as a result of conflict and persecution, emigrants leave voluntarily in search of more favourable working conditions to support their families.

During 2015 and 2016, Macedonia's state owned railway charged refugees, who had crossed into the country's territory while fleeing war, conflict, persecution, and other injustices, five times the normal price of a ticket.

The action against the PCP, signed by Georgi Dimitrov, was in part taken due to some persecution against Comintern member parties or persons (like the Communist Party of Poland or Béla Kun) led by Joseph Stalin.

His father, a Calvinist, and mother fled Antwerp for Cologne in 1568, after increased religious turmoil and persecution of Protestants during the rule of the Spanish Netherlands by the Duke of Alba.

Natasha Walter, who works with refugee women in London, reports that most of the persecution they are fleeing is sexual and that the law does not validate the grounds for their asylum applications.

In return, she came to be blamed for the excessive persecutions carried out under her sons' rule, in particular for the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, in which thousands of Huguenots were killed in Paris and throughout France.

Sakamoto, along with other left wing activists and bloggers in Brazil, often face harassment online, being called communists and supporters of the current Brazilian government (which has been led by the center left Workers' Party since 2002).

Adam Kesher reminds that seven yeras ago Kelimbetov was among the founders of the Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan movement (which called for democratic reforms and was subject to serious persecution by the authorities) and also opines on the reasons of such promotion

Harsh persecution of Protestants by the Spanish government of Philip II contributed to a desire for independence in the provinces, which led to the Eighty Years' War and, eventually, the separation of the largely Protestant Dutch Republic from the Roman Catholic dominated Southern Netherlands (present day Belgium).

This resulted in the engagement of Jews in a variety of competing ways within the countries where they lived these included the struggle for Jewish emancipation, involvement in new Jewish political movements, and later, in the face of continued persecutions in late nineteenth century Europe, the development of a Jewish Nationalism.