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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The very heart of 19th-century communist philosophy born in the streets of first century Christian Jerusalem; the notion that for anyone to go without—without shelter, food, clothing ...