Until the end of the 18th century, the College provided a home for European Catholics escaping persecution.
The former passengers from the Ariana jet allege that they face persecution if they are returned to Afghanistan.
Protestants and Catholics became accustomed to holding secret services at night, during periods of persecution.
To establish a case for refugee status, they had to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution.
After visiting Vienna in 1933, she vowed to fight against the persecution of Jews.
"The Jewish People, which has suffered boycotts and persecution, should be a light unto other nations".
"He is one more Jew who is the victim of persecution, " one man said.
Many more changed their names, clothing and other giveaway features of their ancestry to escape persecution.
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It has allowed many people to contribute to debate who would otherwise have feared persecution.
In Britain, Afghans fleeing persecution from the Taliban have for years been recognised as refugees.
But, it said, the illegal persecution of birds of prey continues in many areas.
McAfee requested asylum in Guatemala, arguing that he left Belize to escape police persecution.
For example, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran are countries where religious minorities face both sorts of persecution.
The children from the Carriageworks Theatre Academy met refugee Amna Idris who left Eritrea due to persecution.
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The U.S. refused to accept Jewish refugees even as Nazi persecution rose and World War II loomed.
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St Peter and St Paul were buried here briefly in the third century during a time of persecution.
Recognizing the very distressing consequences that that caused, that could subject that person to persecution and criminal prosecution.
Her opponent, Jose Serra, also suffered persecution during Brazil's military rule and was forced into exile during the 1960s.
Religious toleration rightly requires that you must let your neighbour practise his religion without fear of persecution or reprisal.
Yes, Britain will always be open to the best and brightest from around the world and those fleeing persecution.
Mr Berlusconi has also denied doing anything wrong, contending that he is the victim of persecution by left-wing prosecutors.
And this despite the fact that Schoenberg fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s.
But the price he has to pay for this new freedom, which gives rise to persecution and jealousy, is solitude.
But even some of the book's critics, such as Azeri opposition activist Murad Gassanly, condemn the persecution of its author.
His Jewish grandfather had fled Romania in the 1920s to avoid anti-Semitic persecution and his father had become a doctor.
Jewishness explained everything: his love of texts, his instinctive empathy with themes of blame and persecution, his sense of exile.
Tzipi arrived with her parents in the early 1930s from Poland, just as the persecution of Jews there was escalating.
The church's spokeswoman in France said it was being "hounded" by the French courts and that its members were facing persecution.
Despite her prickly nature and sense of persecution Edith Sitwell was always quick to recognise and praise a talented new writer.
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French Protestants, fleeing persecution at home, founded a Florida colony in 1564, before all but two of the Pilgrims were born.
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