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In this era, the persecution of Christians is taking place in Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The number of anti-Christian persecutions has increased on a global scale, leading the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to release a report which highlights this trend in 2019.
Religious persecution is the systematic oppression of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or their lack thereof. The tendency of societies or groups within societies to alienate or repress different subcultures is a recurrent theme in human history.
A persecution of Christians at Kirkuk is recorded in Shapur's first decade, though most persecution happened after 341. [69] At war with the Roman emperor Constantius II ( r. 337–361 ), Shapur imposed a tax to cover the war expenditure, and Shemon Bar Sabbae , the Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon , refused to collect it. [ 69 ]
Most of the states in Latin America remained neutral for much or all of World War II. The region, in particular Argentina and Brazil, had historically received large numbers of European immigrants including significant numbers of Jews from Eastern Europe. Immigration restrictions were introduced in the 1920s and 1930s, however, in response to ...
More than 5,500 Uyghurs outside of China have been targeted by Beijing, ... While Interpol later withdrew its notice citing its bylaws forbidding persecution on political, religious or ethnic ...
Many ethnic Hmong fought for the CIA-backed Secret Army against the Pathet Lao during the civil war, [150] and have fought an insurgency against the Laotian government since 1975, as a result ethnic Hmong in Laos have been subject to human rights abuses and persecution. [151] [152] [153] Some have labelled this persecution as genocide.
They have been subject to religious discrimination and/or religious persecution. The largest modern Pagan communities are in North America and the United Kingdom, and the issue of discrimination receives most attention in those locations. Although the persecution of Pagans has decreased in recent centuries, it still exists in some parts of the ...
For 1900 years of Christian-Jewish history, the charge of deicide has led to hatred, violence against and murder of Jews in Europe and America." [8] During the High Middle Ages in Europe, there was full-scale persecution of Jews in many places, with blood libels, expulsions, forced conversions and massacres.