They believe that these persecutions involved court trials before Roman authorities, and even executions.

In spite of these at-times intense persecutions, the Christian religion continued its spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin.

However, as the persecutions of the Jews increased and the details were in danger of being forgotten, these oral laws were recorded by Rabbi Judah haNasi ( Judah the Prince ) in the Mishnah, redacted circa 200 CE.

Mormon fundamentalists believe that these principles were wrongly abandoned or changed by the LDS Church, in large part due to the desire of its leadership and members to assimilate into mainstream American society and avoid the persecutions and conflict that had characterized the church throughout its early years.

According to Nichiren's interpretation of the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, persecutions which Nichiren Buddhists encountered should be perceived as a natural outcome of abiding by their beliefs, as predicted in various chapters of that Sutra: " There will be many ignorant people, who will curse and speak ill of us and will attack us with swords and staves, but we will endure all these things ”.

It is estimated that 200, 000 Jews saved their lives by converting to Christianity in the wake of these persecutions.

While many victims of these persecutions did not, in fact, have any connection to those regimes, cooperation between German minority organisations and Nazi regime did occur, as the example of Selbstschutz shows, which is still used as a pretense of hostilities against those who did not take part in such organisations.

Within these territories the Jewish community flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of antisemitic discriminatory policies and persecutions.

This resulted in the engagement of Jews in a variety of competing ways within the countries where they lived ; these included the struggle for Jewish emancipation, involvement in new Jewish political movements, and later, in the face of continued persecutions in late nineteenth century Europe, the development of a Jewish Nationalism.

However, Kenneth Baxter Wolf concludes that Eulogius was not the instigator of these persecutions but merely a hagiographer.

Mormon fundamentalists believe both that these principles were accepted by the mainstream LDS church at one time, and that the LDS Church wrongly abandoned or changed them, in large part due to the desire of its leadership and members to assimilate into mainstream American society and avoid the persecutions and conflict that had characterized the church throughout its early years.

While many victims of these persecutions did not, in fact, have any connection to those regimes, cooperation between German minority organisations and Nazi regime did occur, as the example of Selbstschutz shows, which is still used as a pretense of hostilities against those who did not take part in such organisations.

Catholic history traditionally imputes these persecutions to the Visigothic kings.

It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Greeks may have died during this period as a result of these persecutions.

Though these stories are considered historically questionable by modern scholars, Christianity must have reached Armenia at an early date as persecutions against Christians in 110, 230, and 287 were recorded by outside writers Eusebius and Tertullian.

Immediate instructions, under date of 14 August 1840, were thereupon issued to John Gliddon, the United States consul at Alexandria, Egypt, by Secretary of State John Forsyth, in which he directed that all good offices and efforts be employed to display the active sympathy of the United States in the attempts that the governments of Europe were making to mitigate the horrors of these persecutions.

In his Emek Habachah he narrates the history of these persecutions.

While there had been a number of regional persecutions of Jews by Christians, such as the one in Metz in 888, a plot against Jews in Limoges in 992, a wave of anti-Jewish persecution by Christian millenniary movements ( who believed that Jesus was set to descend from Heaven ) in the year 1000, and the threat of expulsion from Treves in 1066 ; these are all viewed “ in the traditional terms of governmental outlawry rather than unbridled popular attacks .” Also many movements against Jews ( such as forced conversions by King Robert the Pious of France, Richard II, Duke of Normandy, and Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor around 1007 – 1012 ) had been quashed by either Roman Catholicism ’ s Papacy or its Bishops.

With the persecutions that began around 1096, a new awareness of the entire people took hold across all of these groups, reuniting the three separate strands.

Another theory posits that these Jews were refugees from Byzantine persecutions.

Soon, these witchcraft persecutions would become intertwined in the succession struggles and erupt into a major catastrophe.

Under his rule the first extensive persecutions of the Jews in Poland were commenced, and the king did not act to stop these events.

In spite of these persecutions, Abu Fakih refused to renounce Islam.

For 250 years Christians suffered from sporadic persecutions for their refusal to worship the Roman emperor, considered treasonous and punishable by execution.

Yet according to Historian David Chandler it may be possible that the Sedgemoor campaign, and its subsequent persecutions driven by the bloodthirsty zeal of Judge Jeffreys, set in train a process of disillusion that culminated in his abandonment of his king, and long-time patron and friend, just three years later.

The revolt of the Protestants followed about twenty years of persecutions.

Września's had a large Jewish community which is mentioned as one of the congregations which suffered severely during the persecutions of the years 1648-1651.

The Catholic community suffered major persecutions in the years 1839, 1846 and 1866, chiefly for the religion's refusal to carry out the traditional worship of ancestors, which it perceived to be a form of false idolatry, but which the State prescribed as a cornerstone of culture.

: Now, however, some fifty or sixty years since the holy Church entered into our Korea, the faithful suffer persecutions again.

Although Deryni are still feared and scorned by most of the general population, very few people still partake of the violent and brutal persecutions that had been commonplace two hundred years earlier.

Bang's last years were embittered by persecutions and declining health.

He had frequent visions and ecstasies, practised severe austerities ( which he prudently moderated in maturer years ), and bore with rare patience corporal afflictions, bitter persecutions, and grievous calumnies.

His persecutions were not followed up for another six years, allowing some Church functions to resume.

Her desire to moderate the religious persecutions of previous Tudor reigns — the persecution of Catholics under Edward VI, and of Protestants under Mary I — appears to have had a moderating effect on English society.

He decided to support the poet and activist Octavian Goga, who, after questioning ethnic policies in Transleithania, had been jailed by Hungarian authorities — writing for Universul, Caragiale stressed that such persecutions carried the risk of escalating tensions in the region.

In this note he drew attention to the consequences to the United States of the continued persecutions in Romania — namely, the unnatural increase of immigration from that country — and upon this based his right to remonstrate to the signatories to the Treaty of Berlin against the acts of the Romanian government.

Of more general interest are the writings of two Frenchmen who were driven by religious persecutions to end their lives at Geneva — the memoirs and poems of Theodore Agrippa d ' Aubigné ( 1552 – 1630 ), and the historical writings and poems of Simon Goulart ( 1543 – 1628 ).

It was popular hostility — the anger of the crowd — which drove the earliest persecutions, not official action.

Authorship has also occasionally been attributed to the apostle James the Great, brother of John the Evangelist and son of Zebedee The letter does mention persecutions in the present tense ( 2: 6 ), and this is consistent with the persecution in Jerusalem during which James the Great was martyred ( Acts 12: 1 ).

The following arguments have been based on the content: ( 1 ) It is perceived to be theologically incompatible with Paul's other epistles: elsewhere Paul attributed Jesus's death to the " rulers of this age " ( 1 Cor 2: 8 ) rather than to the Jews, and elsewhere Paul writes that the Jews have not been abandoned by God for " all Israel will be saved " ( Rom 11: 26 ); According to 1 Thes 1: 10, the wrath of God is still to come, it is not something that has already shown itself ( 2 ) There were no extensive historical persecutions of Christians by Jews in Palestine prior to the first Jewish war ( 3 ) The use of the concept of imitation in 1 Thes.

a time when wars and seditions with grievous persecutions have vexed almost all kings and countries round about me, my reign hath been peacable, and my realm a receptacle to thy afflicted Church.

The post-apostolic period concerns the time after the death of the apostles ( roughly 100 AD ) until persecutions ended with the legalisation of Christian worship under Constantine the Great.

Larger-scale persecutions followed at the hands of the authorities of the Roman Empire, beginning with the year 64, when, as reported by the Roman historian Tacitus, the Emperor Nero blamed them for that year's great Fire of Rome.

His place of birth is unknown ; nor is it recorded where his father, Shimon ben Gamliel II, sought refuge with his family during the persecutions under Hadrian.

As result, Germany started negotiations with Israel for restitution of lost property and the payment of damages to victims of the Nazi persecutions.

There he associated in the imperial circle with the administrator and polemicist Sossianus Hierocles and the pagan philosopher Porphyry ; here he will first have met Constantine, and Galerius, whom he cast as villain in the persecutions.

The French tradition of Saint Lazare of Bethany is that Mary, her brother Lazarus, and Maximinus, one of the Seventy Disciples and some companions, expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at the place called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles.

Only at the end of his explanation of the treatise of Epictetus, Simplicius mentions, with gratitude, the consolation which he had found under tyrannical oppression in such ethical contemplations ; which might suggest that it was composed during, or immediately after, the above-mentioned persecutions.

Survivors of the persecutions were overly-influenced by various pagan philosophies either because they were not well indoctrinated in Jesus ' teachings or they corrupted their Christian beliefs ( willingly, by compulsion, or with good intentions but without direct revelation from God to help them interpret said beliefs ) by accepting non-Christian doctrines into their faith.

In England and America, for example, the bare spot was dispensed with, likely because of the persecutions that could arise from being a part of the Catholic clergy, but the ceremonious cutting of the hair in the first clerical tonsure was always required.

Due to doubts concerning the status of persons claiming to be Kohanim or Levi ' im arising after severe Roman / Christian persecutions and exile, the Hebrew Bible tithe of 10 % for the Levites, and " tithe of the tithe " ( Nehemiah 10: 38 ) of 10 % of 10 % ( 1 %) for the priests are dealt with in accordance with Jewish Law.

Nethanel's son Yakob ben Nethanel Ibn al-Fayyumi turned to Maimonides, asking urgently for counsel on how to deal with forced conversions to Islam and religious persecutions at the hand of Saladin.

" Crimes against humanity " were defined as " murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated.

: Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.

From 1560 to 1670, witchcraft persecutions became common as superstitions became associated with the devil.

Beginning with the words: " When King Nimrod went out to the fields / Looked at the heavens and at the stars / He saw a holy light in the Jewish quarter / A sign that Abraham, our father, was about to be born ", the song gives a poetic account of the persecutions perpetrated by the cruel Nimrod and the miraculous birth and deeds of the savior Abraham.

Macedonius went and reproached him with the sufferings his persecutions caused the church.

Harsh persecutions of any real or imagined enemies of the Communist government started with the Soviet occupation in 1945.

Roman persecutions of Christians climaxed with the Diocletianic Persecution at the turn of the 4th century.