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Hostility or mistreatment directed at people because of their religious beliefs or identity.

Persistent hostility, discrimination or cruel treatment directed at people because of their identity or beliefs, including their religion.

Persecution is persistent hostility, discrimination or cruel treatment because of someone’s identity or beliefs. Christians may face unequal treatment, bullying, imprisonment, torture or death because of their faith. A person killed for their religious beliefs is called a martyr.

Hostility or mistreatment directed at someone because of their religious beliefs or commitment.

For questions about persecution, distinguish support for persecuted believers from how those believers themselves may respond.

Keep the rocky ground and thorns distinct: persecution causes the rocky-ground hearers to fall away; worries, wealth and other desires choke the thorny-ground hearers.

Do not present the ‘hundredfold’ reward as a guarantee of personal wealth or an easy life: Jesus explicitly includes ‘persecutions’.

Hostility, mistreatment or suffering directed at people because of their religious beliefs or commitment.

Hostility or mistreatment directed at people because of their religion or beliefs.

Hostility, discrimination or harmful treatment directed at people because of their religion or beliefs.

Persecution means harmful treatment because of a person’s religion or beliefs. It can prevent Christians from practising their faith freely or safely. Its forms range from discrimination and restrictions on worship to imprisonment and violence.

Mistreatment of people because of their beliefs or identity.

Persecution

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AQA GCSE Religious Studies A · 8062

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