Widely criticized after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, the Emperor Nero tried to divert attention away from his own failings by providing an easy scapegoat: the Christians. Although the ...

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

The event that was seen by Palestinian Jews as an unbelievable tragedy, and by some early Christians as God's judgment against a sinful people, was viewed by many pagans as further proof of Rome's ...

The Early Christians knew the way that Jesus thought and reacted because they had spent so much time with him. From early on, it was believed that the Christian community in Rome was special.

The humble fish, or ichthys (ἰχθύς) in Greek, was a symbol that played a crucial role in the early years of Christian history ...

The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his crucifixion and the early persecution of Christians.

"The Jewish community in Rome built them as cemeteries ... "We don't expect any great discovery from Roman catacombs. Early Christians didn't bury objects with the dead. As for now, we have ...

Why didn’t the early Christians celebrate the festival honouring the birth of Jesus Christ ... However, in the fourth century – 354 AD - Bishop Liberius of Rome declared that Christians everywhere ...

Rome — There are people being ... particularly of Christians in lands known to be the cradle of our faith and early Christian communities,” said His Beatitude, Ignatius Youssef III Younan ...