The First African Church Mission played a significant role in the independence of Nigeria because the members we had then ...

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The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

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Baptism in Christian faith speaks primarily of ... Finally, the testimony of church history is that immersion was indeed the mode of baptism practiced in the early church. And Peter said to them, ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of ...

The most intelligible expression of the doctrine of the Church ... early, however, in the writings of the Church Fathers as a synonym for “ordinance”), the sacramental nature of the Christian ...

Over time, the Christian church and faith grew more organized. In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official ...

Christian McCaffrey's season may be over. The 49ers running back went down with a non-contact knee injury early in San Francisco's 35-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night. Head coach Kyle ...