Sentences with phrase «new martyrs»
The phrase "new martyrs" refers to people who have been persecuted or killed for their beliefs, particularly in relation to their religion or political views. These individuals are seen as modern-day heroes who have sacrificed their lives for their principles. Full definition
Often there are new martyrs for whom to give thanks, Always there is music of the most relevant and powerful kind.
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Almost every parish and monastery in Russia has identified its new martyrs.
When the Church in the early 1990s began canonizing the new martyrs of the Soviet period, Elizabeth was among the first.
New martyrs and confessors, the victims of Soviet persecution, were glorified.
In a piece published in December, John L. Allen speaks about what he calls the new martyrs of Latin America and how Christians in Colombia and El Salvador are at a high risk of being killed.
The DRC is an example of «today's crop of new martyrs,» who «generally aren't being killed for reasons directly related to their religious beliefs, but rather the values and humanitarian stances those beliefs inspire,» according to Crux.
More in the spirit of the catalogue of new martyrs is Royal's conceptual focus on John Paul II's understanding of martyrdom as a witness to Christ rather than to a particular church.
Perhaps the most important witness the new martyrs gave in their heroic fidelity — inexplicable apart from their simple love and trust in God — is the witness to the truth that the politics of power is not all there is.
Instead, they are known as «new martyrs,» Christians who have suffered for their faith not necessarily as individuals but rather in whole groups, whole communities, whole generations of believers.
«The Passions» comes to represent the religious imagery of saints suffering throughout the animal kingdom... the new martyrs of our human environmental infection.