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
During Nazi rule, Jews were forced to wear yellow stars which identified them as such. Jews are an ethno-religious group and Nazi persecution of them was based on their race.
Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus, was executed by the Romans.
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of French Protestants in 1572
President Donald Trump meets with survivors of religious persecution from 17 countries in July 2019.
Persecution is the mistreatment specifically directed at individual or group by another individual or group. The most common forms are religious persecution, racism, and political persecution. The inf
Religious persecution
…interests or security. At a societal level, the dehumanization of a particular religious group may readily lead to acts of violence or other forms of persecution. Religious persecution may be the result of societal and/or governmental regulation. Governmental regulation refers to the laws which the government…
Members of the right-wing Lapua Movement assault a former Red officer and the publisher of the communist newspaper at the Vaasa riot on June 4, 1930, in Vaasa, Finland.
A Christian Dirce, by Henryk Siemiradzki. A Christian woman is martyred under Nero in this re-enactment of the myth of Dirce (painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1897, National Museum, Warsaw).
Qalb Loze: in June 2015, Druze were massacred there by the jihadist Nusra Front.
Kaunas pogrom in German-occupied Lithuania, June 1941