The major obstacles that the early Christians faced as they ... and bore it patiently. But these sects that rivaled Christianity did not martyr Christian missionaries; to that extent at least ...

The early days of Christianity were quite complex ... The people who founded these sects were known as Gnostics. They believed they held a secret knowledge about God and the divine, held different ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...

A small, silver amulet found by a skeleton in a nearly 2000-year-old grave in Frankfurt, Germany may offer new insights into the early spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.

As part of the ongoing investigation by law enforcement, Raymond Zwiefelhofer was convicted of 10 counts of possessing child sexual abuse material and was sentenced to 120 years in prison last month.

in those early years before it was called Christianity: The Jesus Movement began as a sect within Judaism. Along the way, the early Christians branched out and spread their message to non-Jews or ...

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