While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

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So why were Christians so focused on telling stories of martyrs? Ancient Christians wrote violent stories about martyrs because they functioned as morality plays that taught virtue and vice.

Then Aquilina says something even more startling about these onlookers of early Christian martyrdom: “Many of them felt a kind of jealousy and regret, because the martyrs had something worth ...

As Uganda honours the heroic witness of the martyrs, their story calls us to deeper faith, sacrificial love, and spiritual ...

Early Christianity faced numerous challenges, both from external persecution and internal doctrinal disputes. Among the most ...

Among the places where early Christians fled for safety from persecution was Antioch, capital of Roman Syria. The newly converted Paul found himself there and, with the apostle Barnabas ...