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

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The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The artifact, ...

People find it hard to believe that Christianity had such an inauspicious beginning in A.D. 33 with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. He had only a handful of followers — many of them poor ...

America’s great religious divide is coming to town. As an estimated 2 million Christians pray for the nation, its leaders and ...

Early on in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the first of three autobiographies Douglass wrote over his lifetime, he recounts what happened—or, perhaps more accurately, what didn’t ...

The Viking berserkers were said to fight in a trance of unstoppable fury. Some historians believe this rage may have been ...

Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with an estimated 2.4 billion followers, or nearly one-third of the world’s total population. But in Japan, Christians are a tiny minority. Unlike in ...