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apostasy

[uh-pos-tuh-see] / əˈpɒs tə si /


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Examples include apostasy laws in some Muslim-majority countries and India’s anticonversion laws.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Longstreet’s prominence made his apostasy an especially dangerous threat.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023

Among them is Lin Pao Rafetta, who is part of the Argentine Coalition for a Secular State, which has led the apostasy movement.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023

According to Harvard University’s Gutman Library, the government of Quincy, Massachusetts in 1637 banned Thomas Morton’s “The New English Canaan” for apostasy in criticizing Puritan customs and exercise of power.

From Washington Times • Apr. 9, 2023

III opens with the story of the apostasy of the Northumbrian kings and the miseries of the “Hateful Year,” terminated by the victory of Oswald at Heavenfield in 634 a.d.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert




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