Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire. When asked by Pliny the Younger how to deal ...

The "remarkable" church, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, was found in an ancient city by a desert oasis.

Image caption, Christianity spread quickly through the provinces of the Roman Empire, shown here at its height in the early 2nd Century ... believe they will be useful. We know that the early ...

Some scholars have even suggested that the majority of Christians in the first century may have been women ... of the male disciples who refuse to believe her testimony. She is most often ...

Christians are a worldwide movement of people inspired by the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, a 1st century Jewish religious teacher, whom they believe to the perfect and absolute revelation ...