Pope Leo XIV's upcoming visit could establish the basilica of the Holy Fathers as a prominent place in Christian history.

After 700 years underwater, Türkiye’s ancient Basilica of Nicaea has emerged, revealing the roots of early Christianity and a martyrs’ graveyard

The earliest known evidence of Christianity north of Italy was recently unveiled by archaeologists, who call the discovery one of the "most important testimonies of early Christianity." The artifact, publicized by the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum last ...

A 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered beneath the chin of a skeleton in a cemetery in Germany is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps, according to a new study. Researchers made the discovery by digitally unrolling a tiny scroll inside ...

When it was discovered a decade ago, the 4th-century basilica of Nicaea was totally submerged, its importance to early Christian history hidden beneath a lake in northwestern Turkey.

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost, which would have been the next pilgrimage festival after the ...

Christianity is, if nothing else, one of the most successful cultural phenomenons in all of human history, and still powerfully shapes the world. But in many ways, this is happening reactively in much of the secular West, where a major plank of the ...

(The Conversation) — Americans are fascinated by magic. TV shows like “WandaVision” and “The Witcher,” books like the Harry Potter series, plus comics, movies and games about people with powers that can’t be explained by God, science or ...

Caritas (Charity), 1559, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Found in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.Heritage Images/Getty Images Because of its long history, Christianity has a tendency to produce contradicting reactions to any ...

Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Saturday at the start of an intense day of meetings and liturgies with Turkey’s religious leaders and a Mass for the country's tiny Catholic community. The head of Turkey’s Diyanet religious affairs directorate showed Leo the soaring tiled dome of the mosque and the Arabic