James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Some believe that Luke ’ s gospel can be seen to mirror the Jewish apologetic literature of the time which served to “ defend Jews against misunderstanding and persecution .” Acts is said to be a:

A nation-state for the ethnic group derives political legitimacy from its status as homeland of that ethnic group, from its protective function against colonization, persecution or racism, and from its claim to facilitate the shared cultural and social life, which may not have been possible under the ethnic group's previous status as an ethnic minority.

" In the longer text of the Martyrs of Palestine, chapter 12, Eusebius states: " I think it best to pass by all the other events which occurred in the meantime: such as [...] the lust of power on the part of many, the disorderly and unlawful ordinations, and the schisms among the confessors themselves ; also the novelties which were zealously devised against the remnants of the Church by the new and factious members, who added innovation after innovation and forced them in unsparingly among the calamities of the persecution, heaping misfortune upon misfortune.

He was against religious persecution.

Numbers were further augmented after 1550, following campaigns of persecution by the Venetian Inquisition against Italian anti-Trinitarians and Jews.

Despite the testimony, persecution against Quakers and other dissenters continued.

The decrees began the " persecution of the demagogues ", which was directed against individuals who were accused of spreading revolutionary and nationalist ideas.

They assert that by defining crimes as being committed by one group against another, rather than as being committed by individuals against their society, the labeling of crimes as “ hate crimes ” causes groups to feel persecuted by one another, and that this impression of persecution can incite a backlash and thus lead to an actual increase in crime.

In November 1938, Goebbels got the chance to take decisive action against the Jews for which he had been waiting when a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, in revenge for the deportation of his family to Poland and the persecution of German Jews generally.

Although some Islamic scholars have differed on the implementation of Jihad, there is consensus amongst them that the concept of jihad will always include armed struggle against persecution and oppression.

A new wave of persecution against " ex-kulaks " was started in 1937.

Orthodox tradition also relates that Mary's brother Lazarus was cast out of Jerusalem in the persecution against the Jerusalem Church following the martyrdom of St. Stephen.

Other purposes include power for spiritual warfare ( the Christian struggles against spiritual enemies and thus requires spiritual power ), power for overflow ( the believer's experience of the presence and power of God in his or her life flows out into the lives of others ), and power for ability ( to follow divine direction, to face persecution, to exercise spiritual gifts for the edification of the church, etc.

Bishop Preysing cautioned against compromise with the new regime, against those who saw the Nazi persecution of the church as an aberration that Hitler would correct.

It was the first official denunciation of Nazism made by any major organization and resulted in persecution of the Church by the infuriated Nazis who closed all the participating presses and " took numerous vindictive measures against the Church, including staging a long series of immorality trials of the Catholic clergy.

Sometime during his reign as Pope, Gregory wrote a letter against the charges of " blood libel " and persecution against the Jews.

Following the Decian persecution of 250 – 251, there was disagreement about how to treat those who had lapsed from the faith, and Stephen was urged by Faustinus, Bishop of Lyon, to take action against Marcian, Bishop of Arles, who denied penance and communion to the lapsed who repented, the position called Novatianism, after Novatian, later declared a heretic, who held for the strictest approach.

The ascetic Priscillian of Avila was martyred by the Catholic usurper Magnus Maximus in 385, who was trying to prove his correct religious credentials against heretics, before the Visigothic period, and the persecution continued in subsequent generations as " Priscillianist " heretics were rooted out.

* June 25 – Wilmersdorfer Tennishallen delegates convene in Berlin to protest against the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany.

* Emperor Valens is converted to Arianism and orders the persecution of orthodox Christians in the Roman East.

According to Joseph P. Schultz, modern scholarship " considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp ", while John J. Collins writes that while the civil war between Jewish leaders led to the king's new policies, it is wrong to see the revolt as simply a conflict between Hellenism and Judaism, since " The revolt was not provoked by the introduction of Greek customs ( typified by the building of a gymnasium ) but by the persecution of people who observed the Torah by having their children circumcised and refusing to eat pork.

About 571 John III the Scholasticus, the orthodox or Chalcedonian patriarch, began ( with the sanction of the emperor ) a rigorous persecution of the Monophysite Church leaders, and John was among those who, ironically, suffered most.

With persecution by the orthodox Christians from the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century, Jewish Christians sought refuge outside the boundaries of the Empire, in Arabia and further afield.

This resulted in the persecution of many major party cadres, including those in East Germany.

Among the latter were the usurpation of state power and party leadership ; the persecution of some 750, 000 people, 34, 375 of whom died during the period 1966-76.

" This resulted in the persecution of many major party cadres, including those in East Germany.

Louis XIV's seemingly endless territorial claims, coupled with his Protestant persecution, enabled William of Orange and his party to gain the ascendancy in the Republic and finally lay the groundwork for his long-sought alliance against France.

In November 1917, it won a plurality of the national vote in Russia's first-ever democratic elections ( to the Russian Constituent Assembly ), but soon split and the remaining faction of this party who remained loyal to Alexander Kerensky was defeated and destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the course of the Russian Civil War and subsequent persecution.

The presbyter penitentiary was added to the ecclesiastical roll about the time of the Novatianist schism, when that party declined to communicate with those who had lapsed in the Decian persecution.

His attitude exposed him to the animosity of the League party and of the Holy See, and to their persecution when the first edition of his history appeared.

It was thus Demetrius to whom the delegation led by Alcimus, complained of the persecution of the Hellenist party in Judea.

Indeed, despite the severe persecution to which it was subjected, the party actually increased its electoral support, gaining 550, 000 votes in 1884 and 763, 000 in 1887.

On the other hand, unlike the treatment by members of the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) and the Croatian Democratic Union ( CDU ) of minorities in their respective areas of control during the Bosnian War, the SDA party reportedly did not engage in organized persecution of Serbs and Croats in the areas under its control.

eccl., IV, 28 ) tells us that Theodorus Ascidas, the leader of the Origenists, had raised the question of the Three Chapters to divert Justinian from a persecution of his party.

More important for the party was the renewal of state persecution of the CPUSA.

I consider Gorbachev and his henchmen, who deliberately organised persecution of Soviet art, to be traitors to the party and the people [...]".

In the wake of the disestablishment of Anglicanism and the persecution of Anglican beliefs and practices under the Commonwealth, the return of the Anglican party to power in the Cavalier Parliament saw a strong revival of the " High Church " position in the English body politic.

It was also while Valens was in Syria, that Themistius addressed to him an oration by which he persuaded him to cease from his persecution of the Catholic party.

As the issue got investigated and as it eventually went before courts, Popović avoided persecution, however two of his party colleagues-DS MPs Alen Selimović and Vojislav Janković-ended up getting charged by the public persecutor in December 2004.

At the beginning of the Abbasid realm in Baghdad, the Alids faced severe persecution by the ruling party as they were a direct threat to the Abbasid Caliphate.

Jiang Qing produced the anti-communist statement that Bo had signed in 1937 with the Kuomintang in order to secure his release from prison, accusing him of " betraying the party " and making him an easy target for persecution.

This was the result of an unprovoked response to religious persecution whereby an innocent party traveling through Mormon occupied territory was attacked on September 11, 1857.

He argued that the deserters were " assassins of battle comrades ", and criticized what he called the " brutal persecution " of Austrian Nazis after 1945, saying that " more than 99 % of Austrians " had been members of the Nazi party.

Although the party does not reject connections to neo-Nazi racist movements, it claims to be a target of political persecution.

Though a loyal GDR supporter Fuchs occasionally opposed the party line: he was against the persecution of the Young Congregations ( Junge Gemeinden ) in 1950s and when conscription was introduced in East Germany, he managed to persuade the communist leadership to allow an alternative for armed service.

These bodies may face varying degrees of interference, harassment, and persecution by state and party organs.