Sentences with phrase «people under persecution»

However, having introduced the existence of hostility toward the gospel, Jesus does elaborate on what can happen to God's people under persecution and sustained opposition.

The homosexual lobby has been very effective in aligning itself with minority groups, is prominently represented at the Holocaust memorial service [12] each year and has created an image of itself as a group of people under persecution.

People under persecution don't have intramural debates because there isn't time, but because there isn't need.

Not exact matches

Shamgar, is your claim that, if the church was under greater persecution, we would all agree about these things because the people holding to one side of each of these debates aren't true believers, and so they would leave under persecution?

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.

Many of the people returned a half century later, and the nation remained in unstable equilibrium until the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. Persecution under the overlord Antiochus Epiphanes, which forms the framework of the Book of Daniel with its lions» den and fiery furnace, led to the outbreak of the Maccabean rebellion.

He also said that America stands with the millions of people in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and other countries that are suffering religious persecution under repressive and brutal regimes.

Their conglomerate tribal origins as slaves under persecution by Pharaoh Rameses II is the setting for the emergence of the Hebrews as a people under the leadership of Moses.

People have an amazing capacity to achieve their desires, exercise their autonomy, and fight for their lives and freedoms even under severe persecution.

Mr Tatchell was arrested under Section 5 in 1994 when he attended a protest against Islamic extremist group Hizb ut - Tahrir with a placard documenting the persecution of gay people.

Under the Mahama administration, some of these political pastors, neutrals, resource persons and their allies in the media made us believe that fuel price increase, nepotism, corruption, impunity, big size government etc were signs of incompetence and ineptitude but today, these persons no longer blame President Akufo - Addo for the massive corruption in his administration, the unprecedented nepotism, the unprecedented large government, vigilantism and political persecution, economic hardship and impunity.

The asylum appeal was made under the 1951 Refugee Convention, which aims to protect people from persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.

The designation of «life unworthy of life» was used to justify the deaths and persecution of hundreds of thousands of people with disability under National Socialism.