Sentences with phrase «under persecution by»

Decide the fate of three rival hackers under persecution by an oppressive government in this cyberpunk RPG featuring turn - based mech combat and visual novel storytelling, coming soon from Arcade Distillery.

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.

Not exact matches

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

Daniel Philpott is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and co-director of the project «Under Caesar's Sword: Christian Response to Persecution,» funded by the Templeton Religion Trust.

In addition to that, however, Catholics in the West today must understand that we are very likely heading into a season of persecution ourselves, a season of the cross less dire than that lived by those Christians presently under direct mortal threat, but quite real nevertheless.

They paid for a book, Christians under Fire, written by Humberto Belli, which summarized the supposed persecution of the church in Nicaragua but had nothing to do with what was really going on inside the country.

In AD 363 when Nisibis was handed over to the Persians by Jovian, many Christians including Ephrem from Nisibis and the neighbourhood migrated to Edessa because of the persecution of Christians in Persia under Shapur II.

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.

REASONS FOR PERSECUTION: Although the Christians there continued to be persecuted and martyred under different emperors due to different kinds of reasons, the reason for the persecution during this period was this, that the decree of the Emperor had to be adhered to by all throughout the RPERSECUTION: Although the Christians there continued to be persecuted and martyred under different emperors due to different kinds of reasons, the reason for the persecution during this period was this, that the decree of the Emperor had to be adhered to by all throughout the Rpersecution during this period was this, that the decree of the Emperor had to be adhered to by all throughout the Roman world.

His fears are backed up by recent reports that show just how dramatically Christianity has declined in the country under the persecution of ISIS.

While the Church in the West, under Constantine enjoyed comparative peace, the policy of persecution was continued in the east by Galerius and his Caesar, Maximian.

they are very quick to charge someone with what he was doing whcih was correct by exposing the evil of the catholic clergy and yet they avoid persecution under the very same legal syetm isn't this the hypocrisy of the catholic clergy and religion.

The widespread misreporting of these cases under the guise of «Christian persecution» when they are anything but has undermined the chance of the public to get a really clear understanding of what the issues engaged by these cases really are.

Directed by Dome Karukoski, this biopic shows the rise of the famous gay erotica artist Touko Laaksonen, who worked under the titular pseudonym to escape persecution in post-World War II Europe.

Under Schendel's hand - one undoubtedly shaped by the persecution and political unrest so prevalent in the first half of the 20th Century - language is presented not just as a communicative device, but rather a wider visual metaphor for human existence.

«Peter Weiss's The Persecution and Assassination of Jean - Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charenton, Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade», 2010

Althea Thauberger, THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN - PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE CHARENTON ASYLUM UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE AS PERFORMED BY THE PRAGUE - BASED EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE COMPANY AKANDA FOR THE PATIENTS AND STAFF OF THE BOHNICE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL, 2012, HD video with sound, 47:17 minutes.

What perhaps did not receive adequate attention by the Court of Appeal is that Obeah has an extensive history of persecution by the British Crown, specifically under the common law system, especially during periods of slavery and colonial discrimination.

[21] Article 9 (1): «Acts of persecution within the meaning of article 1 A of the Geneva Convention must: (a) be sufficiently serious by their nature or repetition as to constitute a severe violation of basic human rights, in particular the rights from which derogation can not be made under Article 15 (2) of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; or (b) be an accumulation of various measures, including violations of human rights which is sufficiently severe as to affect an individual in a similar manner as mentioned in (a).»