"Fatherland" is a word that refers to a person's native or home country. It is often used to express a strong sense of love, loyalty, and devotion towards one's own nation. Full definition
The second is the principle which defines the idea of fatherland or nation in the most tolerant and human sense, a principle which guarantees equality of rights and national duties for those of all races, colors, languages, and ideologies existing in the country. (religion-online.org)
Another travel companion, Vijayesh Lal, the gregarious new director of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, wrote to me in a recent email that increasingly «Christians are treated as outsiders and targeted because they are perceived to be outsiders, i.e., people not proclaiming India as punyabhumi [holy land], although many consider India their pitribhumi [fatherland].» (firstthings.com)
«The principle of uniformity across the European Union patria [fatherland] has already been breached in our case pointing out that the UK already had different border arrangements through the Schengen agreement,» he said. (theguardian.com)