Christian women and children endure brutal and unimaginable ... Here are 6 Christian Persecution stories — representing brothers and sisters we can pray for — worth revisiting as we finish ...

In the Life of Polycarp (ch. 20), the martyrdom of another Christian is mentioned: So having taken the body of the blessed [martyr] Bucolus to Smyrna to the cemetery in front of the Ephesian Royal ...

Almost a century separates us from these holy children-martyrs, and yet they are very close to us ... it is still possible to live a truly Christian life and raise a truly Christian family, even in ...

This simply brings those into the Christian fold and in many ways, it backfires. So the Decian persecution is very short-lived.... What else was going on at the empire at the time of the persecutions?

It also matters because these martyrs are leaven there — refusing hatred even at machete’s edge. “Christian faith can turn ordinary men and women into heroes,” Chaput writes.

The martyrs are drawn from every continent and many Christian denominations and represent all who have been oppressed or persecuted for their faith. Among them are victims of Nazism, communism and ...