ROME (CNS) – In a full church on a Monday evening in Rome, just two days before the conclave to elect a new pope was set to ...

The origins of the beloved baked treat traditionally made with currants, spices, flour, and eggs is closely linked to a cathedral dedicated to St. Alban, England’s first saint and martyr.

It is the original or first feast that entered the Christian liturgical calendar ... to die in defence of their belief, St Stephen being the first martyr (Acts 7: 54-60).Since the dawn of human ...

A papal conclave, following a strict canonical procedure, takes its natural course after the death of a pope and the election ...

Six hundred and forty religious sites have been destroyed, most of them Christian ... destroyed the Church of the First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen in Kryvyi Rih.

The scene was downtown Tbilisi. The year 2005. And the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush proclaimed ...

I dare not for a single second believe I am the first or the second and surely will not be the last to say these things, but I shall be made a martyr for ... Our mc today is Stephen Isaac Randall.

The apostles, the first bishops of the Church, appoint deacons to assist them (6). Stephen ... martyr of the Church. The persecutor Saul encounters Jesus in a dramatic vision and becomes a ...

The news came as the first images of the late pontiff were ... To have a Black pope would revive the Christian faith in Africa and change people's views of Africa, by showing that an African ...