apostasy
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Examples include apostasy laws in some Muslim-majority countries and India’s anticonversion laws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
He is part of the Argentine Coalition for a Secular State that is leading an apostasy movement.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
“There are about a dozen countries in the world where apostasy or blasphemy is, at least in theory, subject to the death penalty,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
Mace could’ve taken this opportunity to lean further into apostasy.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2022
And apostasy grins at him; lurks in the metronome with its flicflac.
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
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
A few priests had attempted resistance, but numberless apostasies and half an insurrection had followed on their action, and now the position had come to be regarded as impregnable.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)
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