Holy war may refer to:
- A religious war led with an exceptionally high grade of religious feeling
- The Crusades, 11th, 12th, and 13th-century religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against Muslim Persia and Middle East.
- The Herem referred to in the Hebrew Bible.
- Reconquista
- Seisen, the name given by Showa era propaganda to the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the slogan hakko ichiu.
- Taiping Rebellion
- Spread of Islam
- Jewish–Roman wars
- Arab-Israeli Wars (disambiguation)
- Way of the Celestial Masters
- Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion
- Jihad (generally translated into English as "Holy War"), in Islam
- Wars of Religion (France)
- European wars of religion
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“Hey, cut the crap! The Pope, the Holy Father himself, has this very day blessed Michael Corleone. You think you know better than the Pope?”
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“It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it!”
—Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)