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
Longstreet’s prominence made his apostasy an especially dangerous threat.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023
He is part of the Argentine Coalition for a Secular State that is leading an 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
They also carried with them letters of safe-conduct from the emperor Sigismund and other princes, and they professed that they were engaged on a pilgrimage of expiation for some act of apostasy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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
For this act of constancy he deserves credit, if the new powers would have considered his services worth having after his frequent apostasies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
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