New Christian
(重定向自New Christians)
- For other uses: see The New Church.
New Christian (Spanish:cristiano nuevo; Portuguese:cristão-novo; Catalan:cristià nou) was a law-effective and social category developed from the 15th century onwards, and used in what is today Spain and Portugal as well as their New World colonies, to refer to Sephardi Jews and Muslims ("Moors") who had converted to the Catholic Church, often by force or coercion. It was developed and employed after the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula by the Catholic Monarchs.