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edit Religious intolerance is either intolerance motivated by one's own religious beliefs or intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices. Religious intolerance and persecution have been common throughout history, and most faiths have been subject to it at one time or another. In its 2000 annual report on international religious freedom, the U.S. State Department cited China, Myanmar, Iran, Iraq and Sudan for persecuting people for their religious faith and practices. The report, whi ... Including:

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To discriminate is to make a distinction. There are several meanings of the word, including statistical discrimination, or the actions of a circuit called a `discriminator`. This article addresses the most common colloquial sense of the word, invidious discrimination. That is, to make a distinction between people on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit. Examples include social, racial, religious, sexual, disability, ethnic and age-related discrimination. Discrimination - Government san ... Including:

• Discrimination - Government sanctioned discrimination
• Discrimination - Ageism
• Discrimination - The paradox of discrimination
• Discrimination - Gender Discrimination

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Blood libels are allegations that a particular group kills people as a form of human sacrifice, and uses their blood in various rituals. The alleged victims are often children. Jews are the most common class = "auto-link" href = "http://www.experiencefestival.com/blood_libel_-_blood_libel_against_followers_of_ancient_greek_religion">Blood libel - Blood libel against followers of Ancient Greek religion

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Nestorianism is the Christian doctrine that Jesus existed as two persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, rather than as a unified person. This doctrine is identified with Nestorius (c.386–c.451), Patriarch of Constantinople, although it is inappropriately named since he himself denied holding this belief. This view of Christ was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431, and the conflict over this view led to the Nestorian schism, separating the Ass ... Including:

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• Nestorianism - Christological implications
• Nestorianism - The involvement of the Assyrian Church
• Nestorianism - The spread of Nestorianism
• Nestorianism - Modern Nestorianism

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Manichaeism was one of the major ancient religions. Though its organized form is mostly extinct today, a revival has been attempted under the name of Neo-Manichaeism. However, most of the writings of the founding prophet Mani have been lost. Some scholars and anti-Catholic polemicists argue that its influence subtly continues in Western Christian thought via Saint Augustine of Hippo, who converted to Christianity from Manichaeism and whose writing continues to be enormously influential among Catholic and Protestant theologians. ... Including:

• Manichaeism - Origins
• Manichaeism - Theology
• Manichaeism - Expansion
• Manichaeism - Manichaeism and orthodox Christianity
• Manichaeism - Criticisms

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Anti-Zionism is a term used to describe several different political and religious points of view. Anti-Zionist positions have in common some form of opposition to Zionism, but their diversity in terms of motivation and expression is so great that anti-Zionism cannot be seen as a single phenomenon. This article examines opposition to Zionism both historically and as it currently exists. Zionism is variously defined as a Jewish national liberation movement that holds that a Jewish nation has existed for thousands of ... Including:

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• Anti-Zionism - Anti-Zionism dictionary definitions
• Anti-Zionism - Types of anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Jewish anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Arab anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Islamist anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Western anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Soviet anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - International anti-Zionism
• Anti-Zionism - Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
• Anti-Zionism - Anti-Zionism and Post-Zionism

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Main article: Islam in China Islam was introduced into China via the Silk Road in the 7th century. It is now practised by a estimated 3% to 5% of Chinese, predominantly such minority groups as the Hui, the Uyghurs, and the Kazakhs. These make up majorities in Ningxia and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions. Islam in China, particularly in the western, minority-dominated regions, can be connected with non-Chinese nationalism and even separatist movements. Other estimates of Muslim population are much higher with ...

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By virtue of establishing nationalism (as opposed to globalism) every government has formalized and supported discrimination. Examples of discrimination within countries include: apartheid in South Africa; institutionalized racial segregation in the USA from the Civil War through the 1960s; the "Jewish problem" in Nazi Germany; and re-education camps in some communist countries. Many governments have attempted to control discrimination through civil rights legislation, equal opportunity laws and institutionalised policies ...

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Before the Edict of Milan, ancient Christianity was an illegal movement, which many considered anti-social for worshipping an executed criminal in place of the traditional deities of Rome. Many early Christians met their deaths through martyrdom, sometimes in the arena, after refusing to renounce their faith. Persecution of Christians is by no means a thing of the past, and today is generally associated with Muslim or Communist countries. For ex ...

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The Assyrian Church produced many zealous missionaries, who traveled and preached throughout Persia and Central and East Asia in the seventh and eighth centuries. Also during this time many Nestorian scholars, having escaped the Byzantines, settled in Gundishapur, Persia, and brought with them many ancient Greco-Roman philosophical, scientific and literary texts. "Nestorian" Christianity reached China by 635, and its relics can still be seen in Chinese cities such as Xi'an. About the same time Nestorian Christianity penetrated into Mongolia, ...

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Due to the socio-economic and political pressures in the years following the Iranian Revolution, periods of outright persecution and times of more latent discrimination many Iranian Christians, both as part of the general exodus of Iranians and as response to the specific pressures, have emigrated, mostly to the USA, Canada and Western Europe. In 2000, about 0.2% of Iran's population were Christians. In 1975, Christians numbered about 1.5% of the total population. Statistically, a much larg ...

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