First of all, this is a religious conflict. The rebels are Shiites.

首先, 这是一场宗教冲突。反政府武装是什叶派。

Following centuries of religious conflict, Europeans pushed for state governance separate from religious control.

在几个世纪的宗教冲突之后，欧洲人推动国家治理与宗教控制分开。

This was the Anglican balance: to emerge from 150 years of religious conflict with a compromise that avoided the extremes on both sides.

脱离150年的宗教冲突，达成妥协，双方都避免极端行为。

But I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time.

不过我没有和我爱上的第一个女孩结婚，因为那时我们之间产生了巨大的信仰冲突。

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has accused the TPLF of being behind more than 100 ethnic and religious conflicts over the last two years.

埃塞俄比亚总理阿比·艾哈迈德指责TPLF在过去两年中挑起了100多起种族和宗教冲突。

Experts say some who fear changes in Burma are trying to slow reforms by creating ethnic and religious conflict ahead of the planned 2015 elections.

专家称有的人担心2015年选举之前缅甸的改变是在企图通过制造种族和宗教冲突来放缓改革进程。

Unhappily for their plans they failed to calculate in advance the effect of their methods upon dissenting Protestants, who still cherished memories of bitter religious conflicts in the mother country.

不幸的是，他们的计划未能事先计算出他们的方法对持异议的新教徒的影响，这些新教徒仍然对祖国激烈的宗教冲突记忆犹新。

But at the same time, it's pretty clear to me that while we're going to have the sort of material things in great supply, we're still going to have religious, nationalistic, and personal conflicts to look forward to.

但与此同时，我很清楚，虽然我们将拥有大量供应的物质，但我们仍然会期待宗教、民族主义和个人冲突。