Author of new book cataloging two centuries of Christian martyrs warns of modern persecution Rev. Johnnie Moore and Jerry Pattengale's book "The New Book of Christian Martyrs" covers two centuries of ...

Washington, D.C. – The third annual March for the Martyrs, held on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., aimed to raise awareness of Christian persecution all over the ...

With the release of Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II," audiences will be plunged back into the cinematic excitement of the Roman amphitheater so vividly captured in its predecessor, "Gladiator." Scott's ...

More than 200 Sri Lankan Christians were killed for their beliefs six years ago. Their deaths beckon us to evaluate how we live. I was not in Sri Lanka at the time, but I was quickly informed of what ...

When Pope John Paul II canonized the Korean martyrs in his 1984 visit to South Korea, he noted their great diversity. A new statue of St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, a Korean martyr, was unveiled at St. Peter ...

Amid the remains of a pagan temple on an island in the Tiber River hangs a red chasuble worn by St. Oscar Romero of San Salvador. Nearby there is a relic of Blessed Stanley Rother, an Oklahoma priest ...

A window at St. Jerome Church in Hyattsville, Md., depicts the Ugandan Martyrs, among them Joseph Mkasa and Charles Lwanga. The young Catholic men were executed with other Christians by Kabaka -- or ...

Sarah Ruden is a translator, a writer, and a scholar of the ancient world. In her new book, Perpetua (Yale University Press), Ruden offers both a portrait of the ancient martyr and a new translation ...

Catholics gathered in Rome on Holy Tuesday for a prayer vigil honoring Christians who have been killed for their faith in recent years. A monk in Nigeria who was kidnapped and brutally murdered last ...

Pope Leo XIV presides over a commemoration of the martyrs and witnesses of the faith of the 21st Century with representatives of other churches in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome on ...