As Justin Welby leaves office, Martyn Whittock explores the early medieval history that explains the authority structure of ...

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

That those are the people who are blessed in this new recasting of the Christian message. Read excerpts from The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Did stories like Thecla -- the fact that the early church ...

Authentic evidence of pure Christianity north of the Alps has never existed before now. And the findings have the potential to change holy history forever ... a missionary and church leader ...

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of Greek origin.

Described as 'purely Christian', the Latin text makes references to Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, as well as Saint Titus, an early Christian missionary and church ... from the history of theology ...

Mobley watches the body of her son, Emmett, being lowered into his grave. Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images JANUARY 1 1804—Jean Jacques Dessalines pro­claims the independence of Haiti from France.

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, ...

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 ...

The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire ... "Thanks to it, the history of Christianity in Frankfurt and far beyond will have ...