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persecute

verb as in wrong, torment

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"Let us protect religious liberty," he told the UN, "including for the most persecuted religion on the planet today – it's called Christianity."

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My grandparents knew first hand what it was to be persecuted for who you were and what you thought or said.

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"The answer, we know from the Gospel, is love and always love. Love for our enemies, and love for those who persecute us."

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The ADF emerged in Uganda in the 1990s, accusing the government there of persecuting Muslims.

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US Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Matthew J. Tragesser says US asylum law protects a "very limited number of persecuted aliens".

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