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.