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The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an ...

which were copied in Coptic in the fourth or fifth century. The Oxyrhynchus papyri are much more varied and fragmentary than the Nag Hammadi library, but they still have much to tell us about ...

Image caption, Christianity spread quickly through the provinces of the Roman Empire, shown here at its height in the early 2nd Century. Historians would rightly point to a single event in the 4th ...

WOMEN IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF CHRISTIANITY After the death of Jesus, women continued to play prominent roles in the early movement. Some scholars have even suggested that the majority of ...

Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was ...

In Damascus we can still find the places where St. Paul converted to Christianity in the first century. We still have first-century churches and monasteries, and we have kept Aramaic, the language ...