1.   He wrote about how social conditions could encourage people with dogmatic biases to persecute groups they were prejudiced against.

2.   Sen. Joseph Lieberman has joined forces with a group of Democrats and Republicans in taking on Communist and Islamic nations that torture and persecute religious groups, particularly Christians.

3.   Today in China, political opponents are imprisoned without trial and religious groups are persecuted.

4.   An international human-rights group on Wednesday accused the Iranian government of persecuting minority groups and urged the country to end ethnic and religious discrimination.