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unusual facts about religious persecution



Little Syria, Manhattan

The overwhelming majority of the residents were Arabic-speaking Christians, Melkite and Maronite immigrants from present-day Syria and Lebanon who settled in the area in the late 19th century, escaping religious persecution and poverty in their homelands – which were then under control of the Ottoman Empire – and answering the call of American missionaries to escape their difficulties by traveling to New York City.

Maude Robinson

She writes of Quaker courage in the face of religious persecution and the efforts of Quakers to alleviate human suffering in the Irish Famine and the Franco-Prussian War.

Miandoab

Miandoab used to have a sizable Bahá'í population, but due to the religious persecution by the government of the Islamic Republic, most have migrated to other cities within Iran or overseas.

Outline of San Marino

San Marino claims to be the oldest constitutional republic in the world, founded on 3 September 301, by Marinus of Rab, a Christian stonemason fleeing the religious persecution of Roman Emperor Diocletian.

Tyneside

This was led by German immigrant cutlers and sword-makers, probably from around Solingen, who fled from religious persecution at home and settled in the then village of Shotley Bridge, near Consett.


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Andrew Yeom Soo-jung

Below the Green Hat is the Crucifix symbolizes the Holy Martyrs of Korea who were the victims of religious persecution against the Catholic Church during the Joseon Dynasty in 19th Century.

Catherine Tishem

Catherine Tishem (d. after 1577) was a Dutch woman who fled to England to escape religious persecution during the 16th Century.

Ditisheim

Immigrating first to Hégenheim, France, then to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 1858 to escape religious persecution, Jacques Ditisheim and his descendants were instrumental in the development of the Swiss watchmaking industry.

Eastern Catholic victims of Soviet persecutions

Orientales Omnes refers to United Nations resolutions of a world of tolerance, free of religious persecution .

Georg Friedrich Puchta

Born at Kadolzburg in Bavaria, he came of an old Bohemian Protestant family which had immigrated into Germany to avoid religious persecution.

Henry L. Fuqua

The original Fuqua family traces it ancestry back to William Fouquet, a Huguenot, who settled in Virginia in the 17th century to escape religious persecution.

Newlin Mill Complex

Nicholas Newlin, a member of the Religious Society of Friends, an Englishman who lived in the Quaker town of Mountmellick, then in Queens County, Ireland, emigrated to Pennsylvania with his family because of religious persecution.

Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Abbey

Due to religious persecution, a group of Cistercian nuns emigrated to Canada in 1904, from a Cistercian monastery located in Vaise (Lyon), France (which had been founded in 1817) in order to reestablish their monastic community in Rogersville.

Paul Menesius

Menesius came from an old wealthy Scottish family of Catholic and traditional background from Aberdeen, who were forced by religious persecution to emigrate to France in 1639, where he studied at the Douai College.

Peter Stretch

The first settlers of Philadelphia were mainly artisans, many of them belonging to the English gentry, who sold their property and came to America to escape religious persecution.

Roberts Cove, Louisiana

These German Catholics were fleeing the Gangelt, Geilenkirchen district of Germany to avoid religious persecution and military impressments.

Shlomo Helbrans

He then settled in Canada, where he was the head of the Lev Tahor settlement of an estimated 45 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, before most members of the group (claiming religious persecution) left for Chatham and Windsor, Ontario in November 2013.

Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary

At that time, due to political and religious persecution in Burma, predominantly Pwo-Karen from the hinterlands of Moulmein and Tavoy migrated into the area northeast of the Three Pagodas Pass, where they received formal settlement rights from the Siamese Governor of Kanchanaburi.