Translation of "Religiöse verfolgung" in English

Ethnic or religious persecution can, however, also constitute grounds for refugee status.

Madam President, I oppose religious persecution wherever it occurs.

This is America... there is no religious persecution here.

Religious persecution increased considerably in 1931-32 when all churches were closed.

At this juncture in the Apocalypse religious persecution intensifies.

Oppression and religious prosecution became worse and worse under the Chinese.

Our problem is a most serious religious prosecution with violation of basic human rights

Violence and religious persecution against believers, we Stalinist Hoxhaists reject strictly.

Let us use our trade relations to denounce the religious persecution and the blasphemy legislation in Pakistan.

Of course, these acts include religious persecution, namely the persecution of Christians.

Let me say immediately that religious persecution is non-Islamic.

The Spanish episcopate would later denounce this religious persecution as the most violent in the history of Spain.

China is stepping up the religious persecution of Buddhist monks and nuns in Tibet for fear of new disturbances.

The persecution you are going through surpasses any religious persecution in history.

Still, religious persecution in Tibet has increased considerably in recent weeks, according to the STP.

Beijing intensifies religious persecution – New regulations as of February 1 (Press Release)

So there are very many differences and we must not treat these events as clear examples of religious persecution.

I call on the European Union and its Member States to do more to combat this religious persecution and, Madam Ashton, I am asking you specifically, how is your policy going to address this?

It also makes clear that we should act against all religious persecution, which is a problem for all religions and in many countries including - let us be honest - some of the countries of our own European Union.

We are therefore calling for Aung San Suu Kyi and the other opposition leaders to be released, for the National League for Democracy to be allowed to take up its work again and for humanitarian aid to be provided, thus preventing both religious persecution and the destruction of the Burmese nation and national minorities.

However, I feel that we have the duty, first and foremost, to point out the report's serious omission to mention the religious persecution of Christians and Jews, who are not free to practise their faith publicly in these countries.

I believe that we now have a text that stands out for its rigour in condemning religious persecution and for its boldness in defending human rights in that country.

I should like to point out that religious persecution is generally, though not always, directed against Christians, notably Catholics.

Alongside economic motives for migration there has always been another: ethnic, religious, and political persecution.

What role does the lack of religious freedom and the frequent existence of religious persecution in certain Islamic countries such as Sudan, Saudi Arabia, etc., play in relations between such countries and the EC?

Religious persecution was common in previous centuries, and still occurs in some countries today.

Rather, it has affected the lives of countless Tibetans, both in exile and in Tibet. In short, our problem is a most serious religious prosecution with violation of basic human rights - a situation without precedent in all of Tibetan history and irrational to such a point that it can hardly be grasped by any sensible person of this world.