Word: persecutors
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...Christ is very straight and very narrow. It leads towards love for one's enemies, prayers for the persecutor, a preference for giving before receiving. It leads away from both contemporary nationalism and contemporary economics. The churches are not likely to take it, unless-which is not impossible-the ghastly confusion of world politics and economics should work in the churches the grace of a sudden conversion...
With Roman Catholics and Protestants the world over working together in a more friendly spirit than ever before, Spain has reversed the worldwide trend and resumed its ancient place as the world's most devout persecutor of heretics. Facts about Spain's 25,000 Protestants (Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal) vouched for by Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, American secretary of the World Council of Churches...
...forgotten that Trotsky himself was a terrorist. The world's dwindling community of civilized minds realized only that it had lost one of the supreme masters of prose of its time, wondered whether that brain had completed its last work-the biography of its implacable persecutor, Dictator Stalin. They wondered too what part the approaching completion of the biography might have played as a motive for the crime...
...baiter Penfold obliquely accused the judge of being a persecutor of Jew-baiters, cried: "I am totally opposed to your trying this case...
...that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland. He had to content himself with taking two of the boss spy's poor little stoogettes, chopping off their heads. . . . This barbarity seems to indicate that Hitler has become a hater of women, a persecutor of them...