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It is part of Christian lore that Christians are persecuted and always have been, with numerous martyrs put to death during early Roman times, but this is far from the truth.
Any Christians in North Korea could expect to be persecuted by this oppressive Communist regime, but the risks for Buddhists would be far greater. Some persecution of Christians occurs occasionally in Muslim-majority countries of the Middle East, but the official position of Islam is that Christians, as people of the Book, should be free to worship as they please.
Certainly, there was occasional and local, unofficial persecution of the early Christians of the Roman Empire, but it is estimated that widespread official persecution of Christian totalled no more than about twelve years, over the course of approximately three centuries. Origen, who, from his experience as well as reading, was intimately acquainted with the history of the Christians, declared that the number of martyrs was not great. Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), in explaining the tradition of early Roman persecution, says the ecclesiastical writers of the fourth or fifth centuries ascribed to the magistrates of Rome the same degree of implacable and unrelenting zeal which filled their own breasts against the heretics or the idolaters of their own times. Christians of this period needed to justify their own actions in persecuting others, by claiming that persecution of Christians had been far more common in the past.
AnswerChristians are not persecuted for being Christians in either Israel or the Palestinian territories. Arguably, Christian Arabs may be discriminated against for their ethnicity, but not for being Christians.
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Chistians persecuted many of them.
There were ten Roman emperors who persecuted the Christians. You can take your pick of Nero, Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aureius, Septimus Severus, Maximus the Thracian, Decius, Valerian, and Diocletian.
Actually, no one did. Christians are still persecuted today.
Christians had meetings at night because they were persecuted, and they wanted their meetings to be secret. In some parts of the world, Christians are still persecuted today.
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A:Members of almost all religious groups have been persecuted unfairly by members of other faiths. Religion may not be the only cause of all instances of persecution, but it is a leading cause:The early Christians were at times persecuted by the pagans, although not to anywhere near the extent that later Christian tradition assertsPagans of the Roman Empire were unfairly persecuted by the Christians, as soon as Christians were in a position to do so.Gnostic Christians were persecuted by Catholic-Orthodox Christians.Jews have been persecuted by Christians, down through the ages.Christians and Muslims persecuted each other.Hindus were persecuted by Muslims in IndiaBuddhists were persecuted by Muslims and Hindus in IndiaZoroastrian, Druze and Bahai followers are persecuted by MuslimsPeople have also been persecuted because of their race or sexual orientation.
AnswerChristians are not persecuted for being Christians in either Israel or the Palestinian territories. Arguably, Christian Arabs may be discriminated against for their ethnicity, but not for being Christians.
He persecuted Christians for what they believed in.
Jews like Paul persecuted the christians.
Saul.
Yes.
The reasons why the individual Christians were persecuted in this period were varied. They were perhaps scapegoats, their faith attacked where more personal or local hostilities were at issue.
Since Jesus death, it's been estimated that over 70 million Christians have been persecuted, with 4.5 million having been persecuted in the 20th century.
No, it is a religion constantly persecuted by the christians.