#persecution
- Anti-Christian — Opposing Christianity, its doctrines, dogmas, or institutions, or manifesting hostility toward Christians; a person who combats Christian values or the Christian church. In a historical sense, the term describes persecution policies, polemical writings, or ideological currents that have attempted to suppress or discredit the Christian religion over the centuries.
- To oppress — To exert moral, physical, economic, or political pressure upon an individual or a collective, depriving them of rights and freedoms, and treating them with harshness or injustice; to persecute, systematically exploit, or tyrannize under a regime of force. In a structural sense, it represents the imposition of an abusive relationship of dominance through the social or institutional apparatus.
- Oppression — The act of oppressing and its result; a political, social, or economic process through which an individual, a class, or a people is subjugated, deprived of fundamental rights, and exploited through force or institutional coercion. It represents a form of tyranny that severely affects human freedom.