Economic pressures joined with religious animosities to make Jews inviting targets.

"There's no religious animosity, but these people have created a big stir," said Bob Soland, a city councilman.

It is astonishing," mused the Christian, "how violent and how general are religious animosities.

The comment further fueled the religious animosity between the two teams.

Many Christians say the laws are simply used to justify attacks on them, out of religious or personal animosity.

Horrified, he breaks up with her, betraying his belief in the possibility of transcending religious and ethnic animosities.

Political and religious animosity against the Witnesses has occasionally led to mob action and government oppression.

Old religious animosities were fading quickly, being replaced by a sectarian optimism for the future of the soon-to-be proclaimed state.

These constitutional disagreements were made worse by religious animosities and financial disputes.

Last March, religious animosity boiled over in the north.