Sentences with phrase «christians under persecution»

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The same applies to the persecutions of Christians under the Roman Empire during the first three Christian centuries.

much of the New Testament includes statements to christians to endure under persecution and statements to comfort those being persecuted.

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

Daniel Philpott is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and co-director of the project «Under Caesar's Sword: Christian Response to Persecution,» funded by the Templeton Religion Trust.

At another church, a prayer of the faithful called for strength for Christian victims to hold up under persecution, without any details.

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

In addition to that, however, Catholics in the West today must understand that we are very likely heading into a season of persecution ourselves, a season of the cross less dire than that lived by those Christians presently under direct mortal threat, but quite real nevertheless.

Persecution and Forgotten, a report of oppression in specific countries, warns that Christians in these countries will not survive if this violence continues and highlights «unspeakable atrocities» such as Christians in North Korea being starved, hanged on crosses over a fire and others being crushed under steam rollers.

It detailed Christians as «being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges and trampled underfoot... extra-judicial killing, extermination, enslavement / forced labour, forcible transfer of population, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, persecution, enforced disappearance, rape and sexual violence, and other inhumane acts.»

In 251 Decius was killed in battle and for the time being Christians were spared, but under Valerian (253 - 260) persecution was redoubled.

Under BJP rule, persecution of religious minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, has markedly increased, as the party often turns a blind eye to the actions of its more militant supporters.

It wasn't until recently when I was reading about the persecution of Romanian Christians under Communist rule that something changed for me.

They paid for a book, Christians under Fire, written by Humberto Belli, which summarized the supposed persecution of the church in Nicaragua but had nothing to do with what was really going on inside the country.

Alexandria was one of the chief sees of the early church, but Christians in Egypt suffered severely under the Diocletian persecutions.

Watching the developements around the world, persecutions of Christians in the middle - east under the «arab spring».

The author is in fact appealing, over the heads of the agents of persecution, to intelligent and well - disposed persons in Graeco - Roman society, in the belief that accurate information about the origins, aims and principles of the Christian Church would do much to disarm the hostility under which it suffered.

There were persecutions of Christians under Shapur II in the fourth century and under Bahram V and Yezdegerd II in the fifth century.

For thirty years or so, the Christians, though not continually under persecution, were made painfully aware that they held a most precarious footing in a hostile society.

In AD 363 when Nisibis was handed over to the Persians by Jovian, many Christians including Ephrem from Nisibis and the neighbourhood migrated to Edessa because of the persecution of Christians in Persia under Shapur II.

In PLO territories, Christian Arabs, who once had freedom under Israel, now suffer persecution, imprisonment, and death for their faith.

When Joseph Stalin came to power in 1927, he ordered his secret police, under Genrikh Yagoda to intensify persecution of Christians.

If you are going to deny the content of the historical confession of the Christian church, as you have done repeatedly on this blog, and now on the eve of the day on which the church commemorates the «incarnation of the word», God with us, Emmanuel, not an insignificant percentage of said church under persecution, hardship and threatening circumstances trying to worship, I would consider it more forthright, if you called yourself something other than «Christian» because that really does imply a historic confession.

Long before this time, Christians who faced martyrdom under the persecutions of the Roman emperors rather than deny Christ met this problem in practice, even as many of our contemporaries have been forced to in our own day.

According to International Christian Concern (ICC), a charity that helps persecuted Christians, Christians in the state of Jharkhand now fear intense division and persecution under the new law.

This book was almost certainly written during or after a period of severe persecution for the Christians, perhaps that carried out under the Emperor Domitian (AD.

I am the grandson of gentle and loving Jews who lived through Polish pogroms, saw a son trampled under the hooves of horsemen whom they identified only as «Christians,» and who fled to America to escape what they saw as Christian persecution.

REASONS FOR PERSECUTION: Although the Christians there continued to be persecuted and martyred under different emperors due to different kinds of reasons, the reason for the persecution during this period was this, that the decree of the Emperor had to be adhered to by all throughout the RPERSECUTION: Although the Christians there continued to be persecuted and martyred under different emperors due to different kinds of reasons, the reason for the persecution during this period was this, that the decree of the Emperor had to be adhered to by all throughout the Rpersecution during this period was this, that the decree of the Emperor had to be adhered to by all throughout the Roman world.

The fourth century was a time of severe persecution of Christians in Persia under Shapur II.

In fact, Christians are under persecution for their believe.

«Under this Kafkaesque procedure,» wrote Saris in her opinion, «[the Indonesian Christians] will be removed back to the very country where they fear persecution and torture while awaiting a decision on whether they should be subject to removal because of their fears of persecution and torture.»

Where does religious persecution rage, killing uncounted Christian martyrs, until the survivors think they hear the souls of the slain crying from under the altar, «O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long?»

Persecutions of Christians continued under the succeeding Ilkhans.

According to K.S. Latourette the invaders who emerged from Central Asia in successive waves became Moslems rather than Christians, the break up of the Mongol Empire which showed religious tolerance, the religious persecution under Timur or Tamerlane (1336 - 1405), the rise of Ottoman Turks, and the condition in western Europe were some of them.

The widespread misreporting of these cases under the guise of «Christian persecution» when they are anything but has undermined the chance of the public to get a really clear understanding of what the issues engaged by these cases really are.