In that sense, the martyr stories have an incredible effect on the imagination of Christians, because who's the first Christian martyr? Jesus, himself. Heroically witnessing to his own faith ...

How did Christian apologists such as Justin Martyr try to reconcile this conflict or apparent conflict between loyalty to Christ and loyalty to Caesar? Did he talk about the nature of the kingdom?

This is the Church of martyrs. This Church triumphs, not the Church that has money in the bank - said Francis. Vatican media have just released a previously unpublished interview with the Pope, ...

The martyrs are drawn from every continent and many Christian denominations and represent all who have been oppressed or persecuted for their faith. Among them are victims of Nazism, communism and ...

As I was reading this book, I kept imagining the martyrs of Revelation who cry out from under the altar, “Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on ...

Above the Abbey’s Great West Door stand ten statues to 20th-century Christian martyrs. This autumn, to mark the 25th anniversary of their installation, a sermon series, ‘The Noble Army of Martyrs’, ...