And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. Tơ ñu ƀuh laih Sôl, ñu ba Sôl pơ Ant...
Just as Paul lived among the Ephesians, Christians are called to reflect Christ in their daily interactions and relationships. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia . . .--No discourse recorded in the Acts is so full of living ...
many churches in Egypt and the Thebaid were laid waste by the fury of the storm. At that time the Christians would often pray that they might be smitten with the sword for the name of Christ. But the desire of the crafty
The Crusader States were feudal Christian kingdoms created by various Crusades, mainly during the twelfth and thirteenth century. In many of these kingdoms, the majority of the population were Eastern Christians or Muslims, under the rule of a Western elite. At times the local populations resented...
But when Peter has been present at the council of Jerusalem, at which was finally settled the relation between the Jews and Gentiles who became Christians, we lose sight of him, and the further spread of the Gospel is summarized in a description of some of the labours of St Paul; and ...
The Byzantine Emperor Alexius asked Pope Urban II for military support to help fight the Seljuks. In November of 1095 at the Council of Clermont in France, Pope Urban called on Western Christians to aid the Byzantines and recover the Holy Land from the Muslim invaders. ...
busily create bogus images of White Hebrews and original Christians, it is the Slavic Eastern Orthodox Church which still depicts Hebrew and Christian Icons in their true Black color.<< Click here to see a portrait of the original (Black) Christians of Britain made by the Eastern Orthodox Churc...
As for the place where the gospel was composed, a plausible suggestion is that it was Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria. That large and important city had a mixed population of Greek-speaking Gentiles and Jews. The tensions between Jewish and Gentile Christians there in the...
In Acts 5, we read that two Christians, Ananias and Sapphira, sold a piece of land but by fraud kept back part of the money. It was St. Peter who pronounced upon them the stern judgment of God and the Church. Acts 5:3 -11- “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine...