Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Sep 23, 2024 • Article History Also called: Apostolicum See all related content Apostles’ Creed, a statement of faith used in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and many Protestant churches. It is not officially...
(often with capital) a man sent out to preach the gospel in the early Christian church,especiallyone of the twelve disciples of Christ.Matthew and Mark were apostles.apóstol apostolic(ӕpəˈstolik)adjective apostólico Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd...
The first occasion in which Bethlehem is mentioned in history has been found in the Amarna letters written from tribal kings of Palestine to the Egyptian pharaohs probably sometime between 1400-1360 B.C. The ruler in Jerusalem complains that Bit-Lahmi has deserted to the ‘Apiru people, a w...