COMMENTARY: St. Paul Miki and his companions did more than simply die for the faith. They lived it with missionary vigor and ...

Despite the chronicle of horrific deaths suffered by early Christians during the vaunted "Age of Martyrs" Pope Francis said Monday that the church has more martyrs today than the early church did. In ...

An ancient church dedicated to a mysterious “glorious martyr” was uncovered near Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday, revealing a major pilgrimage site as early Christianity ...

An Israeli archaeologist Binyamin Storchan, right, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, shows a mosaic depicting an eagle in an ancient church that was recently uncovered in Beit Shemesh, near ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old church in Israel dedicated to an unknown martyr that had animal mosaics that had been erased. The sizable church has Greek inscriptions that say that it ...

This summer the Church of the Japanese Martyrs in Leavenworth will mark the 150th anniversary of the parish with a celebration and Mass the weekend of Aug. 19 and 20. The public is invited to join in ...

In this 2015 file photo, faithful near Kampala, Uganda, pray at the Uganda Martyrs Shrine, Namugongo. (Credit: CNS photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, EPA.) Listen ROME — Martyrs and Christians who endure ...

On Sunday, Memorial Lutheran Church of the Martyrs celebrates their 90th anniversary. It is the first Lutheran church established in St. Augustine, after three centuries when there were no Lutherans ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, along went some other episcopal conferences around the world, called for the Church Father, Saint Irenaeus (A.D. 140-202) to be declared a Doctor of ...

NEW BEDFORD — The beauty of the landmark granite edifice that is St. Lawrence Martyr Church on Summer Street has struck parishioners and visitors for generation after generation. The time has come for ...

BEIT SHEMESH, IsraelBEIT SHEMESH, Israel — Israeli archaeologists have revealed an elaborately decorated Byzantine church dedicated to an anonymous martyr that was recently uncovered near Jerusalem.