apostasy

Examples include apostasy laws in some Muslim-majority countries and India’s anticonversion laws.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Among them is Lin Pao Rafetta, who is part of the Argentine Coalition for a Secular State, which has led the apostasy movement.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

According to Harvard University’s Gutman Library, the government of Quincy, Massachusetts in 1637 banned Thomas Morton’s “The New English Canaan” for apostasy in criticizing Puritan customs and exercise of power.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 9, 2023

She also frequently fixes her camera on characters as they impassively recount stories of past traumas, such as an abortion and an apostasy; the sedateness of her shots mirrors the dispassion of their accounts.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

There can be no plainer commentary on the literary theme of the nun unwillingly professed than these cases of recurring frailty and apostasy.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power

But the apostasies that appealed to more moderate voters made him a pariah to many within his own party.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2022

The group is willing to call out apostasies while also offering sufficient positive reinforcement to ensure that it keeps a seat at the table.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2018

Once we accept such dichotomies, we naturally look for the apostasies and hypocrisies of benighted people on the wrong side of the ethical or cognitive tracks but rarely for real understanding.

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2015

These apostasies have left his old allies angry and confused.

From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 28, 2012

In all previous apostasies, where members had dared to attack his character or question his authority, they had been summarily silenced, and in most cases driven at once out of the Mormon community.

From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by William Alexander Linn