Sentences with phrase «enduring persecution»

When people threw bottles and cans at him, Red loved it all the more, because he thought he was enduring persecution for the cause of Christ.

In some lands it was under the cross enduring persecution.

With this gesture, the Vatican said, the Pope «desired to show his closeness, attention and prayer also to all those who suffer for their faith, in particular to Christians who are enduring persecution or limitations imposed upon their religious freedom.»

Christians endure persecution (and by the way, I don't consider this persecution.

And they «tend to understand evangelization and conversion as verbal, urgent, and sometimes dramatic processes and, consequently, expect and are prepared to endure persecution,» the report stated.

But there are limits beyond which a higher allegiance claims him: he must be loyal at all cost to his faith, and prepared to endure persecution with inflexible determination and fortitude.

In addition to the original twelve apostles, the Bible speaks of apostles who served as traveling missionaries, teaching and leading the early church as it endured persecution and struggled through religious growing pains.

Not exact matches

The fact that most of us still feel the need to hide our identlties and not bring it up when we are around friends and workmates who may be believers is evidence of the persecution we still endure.

Consider, for example, the persecutions the Jews endured on account of their loyalty to the one God and Maker of all.

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

if you get a chance to check out our official website http://www.jw.org under News you can see alot of the things we are enduring as far as persecution is concerned.

As I understand Theo's position, since the Jews endured such a massive collective persecution, it must have been a punishment from their god.

It's true that persecution still endures — and it's been meticulously documented each year by the Texas - based ChinaAid, an organization founded by a former Chinese house - church pastor who was himself targeted once.

This is not the place to get into a debate about the tribulation so all I will say is at least be open to the possibility that Jesus was warning the Church to ready for persecution and be therefore prepared to endure to the end in the face of whatever might come.

At first, in the face of persecution, torture and death, Christians of the first three centuries continually relied on their faith and their communities to endure with the result being a rapid growth of Christianity throughout the empire.

Without self - knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.

Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness from refugees in Bangladesh for the hurt and persecution they have endured, and spoke the word he had avoided days earlier in Burma: «Rohingya».

We have MUCH historical evidence of the unbelievable amount of persecution and suffering that His followers endured... for centuries and still continues today.

Many if not most Southern Christians endure conditions and afflictions the West has largely overcome: poverty, persecution, disease, exile.

They also endured their share of persecution and couldn't rely on the help of others.

Like many urban young people today, they had to endure that scandal, and to make life even more difficult, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee their hometown with their son to a neighboring nation as immigrants to escape persecution and genocide.

Yet they endure me (a catholic), and we're still waiting for the mass persecutions of Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christian Scientists, Mormons, etc..

They have endured the most ruthless and long - continued persecution ever visited upon any people.

10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, [g] perseverance, 11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!

To endure patiently in the face of persecution.

Among the many lessons from Reverend King's life are that faithful Christians should pursue their dreams, but be willing to make sacrifices, and be prepared to endure doubt, ridicule and even persecution.

Appalled at the daily insult and discrimination they received as blacks and as Muslims, she was astonished at their ability to endure such persecution with dignity and without bitterness.

Bishop Angaelos commented: «Coptic Christians - who have endured injustice, persecution, and loss of life for centuries without retaliation, repeatedly forgiving unconditionally - deserve to live with respect and dignity in their indigenous homeland.»

Yeah I feel sooooooooooo bad for all the persecution your faith has had to endure.

It's a flaw of the source material (a result of condensing a 1,500 - page novel into a three - hour play, presumably) that Javert's enduring pursuit and persecution of Valjean is based on so dubious a dedication to the letter of the law, but a strong performance goes a long way to at least making it seem emotionally credible, if not, say, psychologically so.

Based on historical accounts of the religious persecution endured by members of the Mormon Church in 19th century America, this movie focuses on the fictional Steed family and the trials of faith they encounter as they seek for a place to build their Zion.

I'm often amazed by what American people have endured to be Americans including my German ancestors who came to American to escape Hitler's persecution of Jewish people; my husband's Norwegian grandparents who spent a North Dakota winter in a tent on the prairie; my Polish grandfather and his family who were displaced from their homeland by Hitler; and the brave people in my family who have fought in every war on American soil and abroad.

The exhibition also explores the enduring consequences of Chareau's flight from Nazi persecution, the dispersal of many of the works he designed during and after World War II, and his attempts to rebuild his career while in exile in New York during the 1940s, including the house he designed for Robert Motherwell in 1947 in East Hampton, Long Island.

Identified as a Tutsi, Rutagarama has endured a lifetime of persecution from the country's Hutu extremists.