Despite the chronicle of horrific deaths suffered by early Christians during the vaunted "Age of Martyrs" Pope Francis said Monday that the church has more martyrs today than the early church did. In ...

An ancient church dedicated to a mysterious “glorious martyr” was uncovered near Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday, revealing a major pilgrimage site as early Christianity ...

An Israeli archaeologist Binyamin Storchan, right, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, shows a mosaic depicting an eagle in an ancient church that was recently uncovered in Beit Shemesh, near ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 1,500-year-old church in Israel dedicated to an unknown martyr that had animal mosaics that had been erased. The sizable church has Greek inscriptions that say that it ...

Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Armenian Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles experienced a devastating fire August 24, one that ...

NEW BEDFORD — The beauty of the landmark granite edifice that is St. Lawrence Martyr Church on Summer Street has struck parishioners and visitors for generation after generation. The time has come for ...

This summer the Church of the Japanese Martyrs in Leavenworth will mark the 150th anniversary of the parish with a celebration and Mass the weekend of Aug. 19 and 20. The public is invited to join in ...

On Sunday, Memorial Lutheran Church of the Martyrs celebrates their 90th anniversary. It is the first Lutheran church established in St. Augustine, after three centuries when there were no Lutherans ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, along went some other episcopal conferences around the world, called for the Church Father, Saint Irenaeus (A.D. 140-202) to be declared a Doctor of ...