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During the Civil War, Franco's regime persecuted the country's 30,000 [10] Protestants, and forced many Protestant pastors to leave the country and various Protestant leaders were executed. [11] Once authoritarian rule was established, non-Catholic Bibles were confiscated by police and Protestant schools were closed. [ 12 ]
A persecution of Christians at Kirkuk is recorded in Shapur's first decade, though most persecution happened after 341. [69] At war with the Roman emperor Constantius II ( r. 337–361 ), Shapur imposed a tax to cover the war expenditure, and Shemon Bar Sabbae , the Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon , refused to collect it. [ 69 ]
Shqip; Sicilianu; Simple English ... Protestantism is a branch of Christianity [a] ... When a population was suppressed or persecuted into feigning an adherence to ...
Figures in 2022 note that 0.45% of the population are Protestant. [10] This is about 13,000 people. Many Protestant denominations come under the umbrella organisation, the Albanian Evangelical Alliance (VUSH). [11] [12]
Evangelical Protestantism is one of five officially recognized faiths in Albania. [2] It is a Christian faith that views Jesus Christ as its founder and head, and the Bible (especially the New Testament ) as its written authority.
French Protestantism, though its appeal increased under persecution, came to acquire a distinctly political character, made all the more obvious by the noble conversions of the 1550s. This had the effect of creating the preconditions for a series of destructive and intermittent conflicts, known as the Wars of Religion .
The Persecution of Yazidis has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. [314] [315] The Yazidi religion is regarded as devil worship by Islamists. [316] Yazidis have been persecuted by Muslim Kurdish tribes since the 10th century, [314] and they were also persecuted by the Ottoman Empire from the 17th century to the 20th century. [317]
The first Albanian to convert to Protestantism was Kostandin Kristoforidhi, who did so in 1856. [7] Gjerasim Qiriazi also converted and became the first Albanian ordained Protestant minister. By 1882, however, the Albanian Evangelical Church family grew up to 36 believers. The first Protestant church was born in Manastir. In that year, prayers ...