Many were condemned to death, and still more fled the country to escape persecution.

Other Christians soon followed, inspired by his example and perhaps also to escape persecution.

He came from "the old country" - Russia - in 1906 to escape persecution.

His friends advised him to leave Poland to escape persecution by the police.

Due to the controversy which followed Smith, he was not to escape persecution for long.

He said he had come to America to escape persecution.

During the reign of Mary he went abroad to escape persecution.

They had come to America to escape religious persecution, but then nearly starved to death.

That, he said, was necessary to escape persecution directed at certain Americans who were over the age of 18.

Her parents had left Yemen in 1949 to escape religious persecution.