An international team of archaeologists has revealed a "remarkable" early Christian church in Egypt, thought to be more than ...

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost ...

Read excerpts from The Acts of Paul and Thecla. Did stories like Thecla -- the fact that the early church is urging people to abstinence, to effectively be breaking up their families, leaving ...

In fact, the 25th of December was not even chosen by the Christians, but by the Romans – the traditional arch enemies of the early church. You may be asking – how on earth did this happen? Here’s how: ...

Pentecost is still important to Christians today because: It represents the beginning of the Christian Church; It reminds ... them tell others about Jesus. Early Christians faced persecution ...

“This is arguably one of the most important archaeological discoveries for understanding the early Christian church,” said Bobby Duke, director of the Scholars Initiative at the Museum of the ...

As the early Church grew and spread, it celebrated the sacraments as would be best understood and received in the context of individual cultures, without ever changing their essential form and matter.