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 ...

In the immediate aftermath of the Columbine High School massacre, a modern myth was born. A story went around that one of the two killers asked one of the victims, Cassie Bernall, if she believed in ...

For the first three hundred years of its existence, tradition maintains, Christianity was a persecuted and suffering religion. Members were hunted down and executed, their property and books burned by ...

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 ...

In the first few pages of The Myth of Persecution, I had the feeling that I had fallen into an argument already at full boil. A bit like switching on the recent presidential campaign three months ...

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 ...

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.

After a long period in which the persecutions of Christianity were really spasmodic, local, [and] involved very few people, suddenly in the middle of the 3rd century, the year 250, the Emperor Decius ...

A group of Christian Native Americans and missionary priests - all who died in St. Augustine and near present-day Jacksonville centuries ago while defending their faith - have been proposed for ...

People in Dhaka, Bangladesh, walk along a railroad with their belongings Oct. 30, 2019. Catholic faithful in the Archdiocese of Chittagong, Bangladesh, paid tribute Nov. 14 to 17th-century Christian ...