6. The Crusades The crusades were a series of religious wars in western Asia and Europe initiated, supported and sometimes directed by the Catholic Church between the 11th and the 17th century. The crusades differed from other religious conflicts in that participants considered them a penitential ...
Was there an early, original, Nazarene form of Christianity that was so persecuted and so maligned that even today it is overlooked and/or dismissed by most who profess Christ?While the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches publicly place great emphasis on early Christian history, most ...
Third Crusades: The Third Crusades took place between the Muslim forces of Ayyubid Sultan Saladin and the Christian forces under King Richard the Lionheart. Despite fierce battles, Saladin's forces defeated the Christians, who signed a truce in 1192 A.D. ...