Preposition: of

• people: For instance, Baal, a Canaanite deity, frequently became a factor in the apostasy of the Hebrew people.

Converse of object

• make: The deed suddenly wrought in the heat of excitement acted as a warning to multitudes who were preparing to make the same apostasy... .

Adjective modifier

• national: And the times of national apostasy were precisely the period of the prophetic dispensation.

• complete: The end result was disobedience and eventually complete apostasy from God, a falling away, a standing apart from the truth.

• universal: The settlers are trying to displace the locals from whole swathes of land, and the author blames their failure on a universal apostasy.

Modifies a noun

• law: This report tracks the application of apostasy laws around the world, citing many examples.

Preposition: in

• church: And isn't our era one of theological and moral confusion, of opposition to the truth, even of apostasy in the church?