Despite the chronicle of horrific deaths suffered by early Christians during the vaunted "Age of Martyrs" Pope Francis said Monday that the church has more martyrs today than the early church did. In ...

A mural of Archbishop Oscar Romero and Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande is seen in El Paisnal, El Salvador, March 9. (CNS photo/Octavio Duran) Readers of America may be aware that Pope Francis recently ...

The devil's hatred for Christ and for our redemption is the root cause of all persecution since the beginnings of the Church, Pope Francis said at a special liturgy that focused on modern martyrs.

Persecution in the Roman Empire was not, as is widely supposed, a constsant experience for Christians. Rather, it was sporadic, spaced sometimes by long periods of relative tranquility. The first long ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Pope Francis beatified 124 Korean martyrs on Saturday, telling hundreds of thousands of people who turned out for his open-air Mass that their ancestors' willingness to die ...

I went with some friends to see the latest Christian movie in the theaters the other night. We sat in an air-conditioned building in large, comfortable, reclining chairs and watched a high-definition ...

Catholic faithful in Chittagong Archdiocese have paid tribute to early Christian missionaries and martyrs for “priceless sacrifices” that were instrumental in laying the foundation of the Church in ...

Instead of Draining the Swamp, Trump Starts Renaming It After Himself Audio By Carbonatix What do the early Christian martyrs who were burned alive for refusing to apostatize have in common with the ...

ROME — During routine restoration of a nearly 1,000-year-old church, a worker discovered bone fragments in clay pots that may belong to St. Peter, three other popes and four early Church martyrs.