May 13—ROME, Italy — Christians have been persecuted throughout history and are still getting kicked around in some parts of the world, but their worst tribulations were under the Roman emperors who ...

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 ...

After a long period in which the persecutions of Christianity were really spasmodic, local, [and] involved very few people, suddenly in the middle of the 3rd century, the year 250, the Emperor Decius ...

[Editor’s note: This is the second piece in a two-part essay by Charles Mercier. Part one is available here.] If Brent Shaw convinces us to be skeptical that emperor Nero instituted Roman persecution ...

In the year 112, a Roman governor in modern-day Turkey had his first encounter with members of a strange religious cult called “Christiani.” The governor had heard reports the cult followed an obscure ...

Evidence indicating the sympathy which Palestinian Jews in the time of Diocletian expressed for the Christian martyrs when the Roman Emperor was persecuting was presented here today by Prof. Saul ...

Christians are under persecution worldwide and face discrimination in the West that could turn in to more violent opposition, according to the author of a new book on martyrdom. "For 2000 years, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cavan W. Concannon, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE ...

The net effect of this is that a new cult of the martyrs appears in Christianity, which strengthens the the church, which feeds on anti-government sentiment in many segments of the empire, - those ...

The release of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II” in 2025 plunged audiences back into the cinematic excitement of the Roman amphitheater so vividly captured in its predecessor, “Gladiator.” As someone who ...