| The persecutions and martyrdoms seemed to have solidified the believers' faith. |
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| We have lived through Crusades, Spanish inquisitions, blood libels, pogroms, persecutions, mass murders, and gassings. |
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| I must say I was astonished at the mildness with which they spoke of those at whose hands they were enduring these abominable persecutions. |
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| Other than these people, so many other believers overcame persecutions to keep their faith. |
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| The most important and longest of the Christian-Jewish disputations the consequence of which was mass conversions and intensified persecutions. |
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| Thousands of men, women and children bore witness to their faith through martyrdom during intermittent persecutions of XVIII and XIX centuries. |
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| The believers had to face so many persecutions just to keep their faith, even though they didn't do anything evil. |
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| He believed in God, but could not overcome persecutions and denied the Lord or bowed down before idol. |
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| I've made my vow of martyrdom, but I don't want to expose myself recklessly and uselessly to persecutions and martyrdom. |
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| Others show signs of violence and may have been broken during the Buddhist persecutions. |
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| Yet hideous persecutions and massacres accompanied the national troops' advance through Spain. |
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| According to reliable local intelligence there were no killings, mistreatments or persecutions. |
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| They have suffered severe persecutions, but have never lost the sense of their goodness and tolerance. |
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| Be active, do not slumber, or do you want to wait for the persecutions to surprise you sleeping? |
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| Then, we heard from other witnesses who told us about discrimination against and persecutions of religious minorities. |
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| In the meantime we sometimes faced persecutions and hardships but we never gave up. |
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| The post-Stalinist European communist regimes have exploited the widespread fear of potential persecutions well present in collective memory. |
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| Further widespread persecutions of the Church occurred under nine subsequent Roman emperors, most intensely under Decius and Diocletian. |
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| Under the Heresy Acts, numerous Protestants were executed in the Marian persecutions. |
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| Well might his friends exclaim that he had grown by persecutions, turnings out, and stabbings. |
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| The Waldensian Church survived in the Western Alps through many persecutions and remains a Protestant church in Italy. |
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| In 1936, a Confessing Church envoy protested to Hitler against the religious persecutions and human rights abuses. |
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| During the Marian persecutions, three women, the Guernsey Martyrs, were burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs. |
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| The persecutions soon numbered thousands of dead and tens of thousands of homeless. |
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| Upon hearing of these miracles, the astonished judge ordered further persecutions to cease, and began to honour the saint's death. |
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| Julian does not appear to have reinstated the persecutions of the earlier Roman emperors. |
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| Once more they are on the road of suffering in all its forms: violence, wars, divisions, persecutions or diseases brought on by their evil behavior. |
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| Since the nature of the persecutions of the Chaldo-Assyrians differ along ethnic, political, and religious lines, the victimizers are also different. |
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| Also, even if he does give excuses from his standpoint, when the 24 elders testify to how they kept their faith even in fierce persecutions, the pointlessness of his excuse will soon be revealed. |
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| This contest often remains on the spiritual plane, but from time to time, it descends from the level of spirits and souls to the corporeal plane and becomes visible, as in times of open persecutions. |
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| These that come out from persecutions shall be My choicest of servants. |
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| What is more, you and other speakers are saying all this, yet, at the same time, you are condemning the ethnic persecutions and trying to reconstruct democracy. |
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| It was a significant advance when the dialogue realized that remaining theological differences between our two traditions could not be honestly and fruitfully explored until the legacy of the persecutions was faced directly. |
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| On the contrary, the former president of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano's open letter to African leaders is an example of the kind of leadership present persecutions demand. |
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| In not a few cases, that freedom is impeded by prohibitions and persecutions, or it is limited when the Church's public presence is reduced to her charitable activities alone. |
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| These inspired words sound as wishful thinking when we consider that children represent half of the world's refugees and displaced persons and often endure the same persecutions as adults. |
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| There is also a lack of awareness by migrant women in many countries of the recognition of gender-based persecutions as a legitimate reason to seek protection, which definitely hinders many women from applying for asylum. |
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| With regard to displacement of people, the Government must put an end to persecutions and to mandatory exit visas and must stop punishing those who left the country without a visa or came back to it. |
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| The envisaged measures aim to offer a higher degree of protection to victims of persecutions, as asked for by the European Council in the Pact on Immigration and Asylum. |
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| There were a series of religious controversies that resulted in divisions and persecutions. |
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| Imperially authorized persecutions were limited and sporadic, with martyrdoms occurring most often under the authority of local officials. |
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| Several of the New Testament writings mention persecutions and stress endurance through them. |
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| In the early Byzantine period they were generally tolerated, but then periods of tensions and persecutions ensued. |
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| The first wave of persecutions targeted primarily the princely clans of Russia, notably the influential families of Suzdal. |
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| We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. |
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| Politics, wars, persecutions, oppressions, and related potential threats can make precise counts of Orthodox membership difficult to obtain at best in some regions. |
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| My face I'll grime with filth, blanket my loins, elf all my hairs in knots, and with presented nakedness outface the winds and persecutions of the sky. |
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| Antisemitism arose during the Middle Ages, in the form of persecutions, pogroms, forced conversions, expulsions, social restrictions and ghettoization. |
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| The persecutions combined a relentless specificity with sudden, blind generality that might force any woman to confront the asocial, immoral side of being human. |
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| The persecutions did not extinguish the faith, but they tested it sorely. |
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| The Marian Persecutions of Protestants ensued and 283 Protestants were burnt at the stake for heresy. |
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| A small plaque below the statue of General Nott commemorates the place where he was burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions. |
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