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 ...

That’s why Norman Hubbard, a campus minister and author, thinks it’s worth Christians’ time to re-examine the words with which first-century Christians addressed each other, why they were so ...

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 ...

A Romanian by birth, an Orthodox Christian by upbringing ... and Talks. The book is primarily a first person biography taken from several interviews with Fr. George. But it also contains many of his ...

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 ...