Sentences with phrase «face of persecution»

After various struggles with the unromantic face of persecution and martyrdom, Garrpe dies trying to save apostate Christians from death, and Rodrigues chooses to apostatize to save others from torture and death, urged on by the apostate Ferreira to this «greatest act of love.»

Perhaps Jews and Muslims can draw closer together and recognize that when the ugly face of persecution rears its head, it often does not distinguish between the Quran and the Torah.

The Hellenistic Jewish text, Wisdom of Solomon, for example, pictures the righteous as gentle and forbearing in the face of persecution by the wicked, reproving but not physically opposing their foes, despite lack of earthly reward for their virtue.

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.

He and Garrpe have difficulty reconciling the real existence of a «weak shoot» like Kichijirō with the stories they have heard of the courage of the Japanese in the face of persecution; Garrpe even asks him incredulously, «Are you really a Japanese?»

It is just as likely, of course, that these Jewish believers in Jesus had started their own «Christian Synagogue» patterned after the Jewish traditions, and it was this they should not abandon, even in the face of persecution (cf. Jas 2:2; 5:14).

However, we can marvel today at how his words have come true — the eloquent wisdom in the face of persecution of St Joan of Arc; of so many English martyrs; St Paul Miki, and of many more.

All of this together made mealtime the perfect opportunity to teach and answer questions about Jesus, encourage one another to stand strong in the face of persecution, and simply share food and fellowship with one another as was the custom.

As I see it, both the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Fourth Gospel (not to mention I Corinthians) provide evidence of the early church's insistence on human communion, even in the face of persecution and death.

The Christian's place is to witness to the gospel even in the face of persecution by one's own family.

«On this Day of the Endangered Lawyer, the Bar Council along with BHRC stands in solidarity with those lawyers across the world, and in particular the lawyers of Egypt, who show courage and determination in striving to uphold the rule of law in the face of persecution.»