The decrease was due to the anti-Catholic policy across the Ottoman Empire, Maronites in Kormakitis and other Maronite villages were forced to pay high taxation.
King James had a strict anti-Catholic policy, so a group of prominent Roman Catholics plotted to overthrow the government.
The following year, Wallachia resumed its anti-Catholic policies.
Ming Man's successor, Thiệu Trị, upheld the anti-Catholic policy of his predecessor.
After 1945, he was critical of the anti-Catholic policies of the Yugoslav Communist regime.
He worked in Wales for four years, and despite the official anti-Catholic policy no action was taken against him.
The French republican policies of "Dechristianization" in 1790-1801 were often similar to Cromwell's anti-Catholic policies in Ireland in the 1650s.
Calles began carrying out anti-Catholic policies which caused peaceful resistance from Catholics in 1926.
Minh Mạng's successor, Thiệu Trị, also upheld the anti-Catholic policy of his predecessor but tried to avoid direct confrontations.
The anti-Catholic policy was justified on the grounds that the loyalty of Catholics supposedly lay with the Pope rather than the national monarch.