Translation of "Religionskrieg" in English

Any search for something beyond that just leads to religious wars.

She's using a non-secular vocabulary and framing this as a religious war.

It was worse than a war of religion.

The murder was followed by a decades-long, bloody religious war.

And the way it was put in, was through the Netherlands war.

The political war must not be turned into a war of religion.

We had presidential elections in Congo and attempts to provoke religious war in Nigeria.

This, however, would mean a religious war, which the Foreign Minister wants to avoid.

It started as a war of religion, but became a war for supremacy and gain.

That was the political incentive to a religious war.

And when those three decades of religious conflict were finally over, people counted the losses.

The planned and brutal murder of a French priest is a call to wage religious war on many levels....

The United States is carrying out a religious war against the inhabitants of those countries where there is oil.

We fight for the abrogation of all the Concordats, all the Wars of Religion and against any “Clash of Civilizations”.

Why should it actually take sides, in an - according to our categories - absurd power struggle and religious war?

I would ask my fellow Members, especially Mr Cohn-Bendit, to be a bit more careful about what they say because, apart from the fact that the decision of the Committee on Foreign Affairs has been respected, the last thing we need at such a sensitive political moment is to create a religious war between a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew.

This shows that this is not actually a war of religion but a series of tribal conflicts, ethnic conflicts, and that interested parties, including interested parties in the oil industry - for once this must be said - are systematically fanning the flames of these conflicts.

Yes, it is war, but not a war of religion. No, it is a colonial war, where people are resisting military occupation and a state which continues, with utter impunity, to breach international law and the right to live.

Secondly, we must welcome the arrest of the warlords openly calling for civil and religious war as evidence of the will of the Indonesian authorities to support a peace process in all the regions involved.

It was a religious war, but at the same time a class war, a revolution faced with a reaction.

As the Swedes approached, the monks feared that the Protestants would loot their Catholic sanctuary, seeing as the great European religious war of the 17th century, the Thirty Years' War, had barely ended.

Constantly moving through Poitou and the Limousin, as the exigencies of the civil war required, occasionally taking his turn as a guard, at least on one occasion trailing a pike on an expedition against the Leaguers, with no access to libraries, and frequently separated even from his own books, his life during this period seems most unsuited to study.

The conflict was simultaneously a religious war, a war for the hegemony within the Confederacy and an uprising of subjects.

So when he speaks of an impending religious war in Europe, between the Calvinist German-dominated northeast and the largely Catholic periphery, it is time to take notice.

When the vicious sectarian war between Muslim rebels and Christian militias flared across the country, tearing apart the community he served, he treated the wounds of fighters and hid victims from both sides without fear or prejudice.