The late Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who consistently emphasized national unity and ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis reflected on Friday on the life and death of Blessed Oscar Romero, who was recognized as a martyr earlier this year, stressing that each Christian ought to be ready to give ...

HILLARY CHAPMAN (Bahá’í Educator): The Bahá’í faith begins with two prophetic figures in 19th century Persia. The Báb was a merchant by trade, and came to assert that he was the fulfillment of Islam, ...

Princeton University’s Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. It is largely through her work that many understand the early non ...

Certainly advancing some bold claims, the professor holds that the so-called "Age of Martyrs" was, at least in part, fictional. This was the time-frame before Emperor Constantine legalized ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis marked the feast day of St. Stephen on Dec. 26, noting that the martyrdom of the early Church saint helps prevent the Christmas season from being reduced to a trivial ...

A vocal anti-Israel activist, who has made several donations to Rep. Rashida Tlaib's, D-Mich., House campaigns, mourned the assassination of a top Hamas leader on Wednesday, saying his "martyrdom is ...

[Editor’s note: This is the second piece in a two-part essay by Charles Mercier. Part one is available here.] If Brent Shaw convinces us to be skeptical that emperor Nero instituted Roman persecution ...