Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or a group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or their lack thereof.
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10 Facts About Religious persecution
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Indeed, in many countries, religious persecution has resulted in so much violence that it is considered a human rights problem.
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Examples of Religious persecution include the confiscation or destruction of property, incitement of hatred, arrests, imprisonment, beatings, torture, murder, and executions.
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Religious persecution can be considered the opposite of freedom of religion.
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Sociological view indicates religious intolerance and persecution are largely social processes that are determined more by the context the social community exists within than anything else.
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Religious persecution has occurred in different historical, geographical and social contexts since at least antiquity.
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One period of religious persecution which has been extensively studied is early modern England, since the rejection of religious persecution, now common in the Western world, originated there.
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Religious persecution advised all means of destruction to be used against heretics, but without bloodshed, in the name of 'saving souls'.
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Persecution of Muslims is the religious persecution that is inflicted upon followers of the Islamic faith.
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Persecution of Zoroastrians is the religious persecution inflicted upon the followers of the Zoroastrian faith.
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