Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire. When asked by Pliny the Younger how to deal ...

On April 30, 311 AD, the Roman Emperor Galerius issued what became known as the Edict of Serdica, which made the first formal ...

WOMEN IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF CHRISTIANITY After the death of Jesus, women continued to play prominent roles in the early movement. Some scholars have even suggested that the majority of ...

Image caption, Christianity spread quickly through the provinces of the Roman Empire, shown here at its height in the early 2nd Century. Historians would rightly point to a single event in the 4th ...

I join millions of Catholics and good people on planet earth to congratulate Pope Leo XIV on his historic election as the new ...

It may surprise people that the first-century Christian assemblies bear little resemblance to the institutions of Christianity we see populating America. In the New Testament, the early gatherings ...

Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was ...