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Popes frequently ordered the persecution of Christians outside the Catholic Church, as well as those who claimed to be Catholics but who appeared to dissent from the teachings of the Church.
From 1209 until almost 1250, crusading armies poured into the Languedoc region of southern France, on the orders of Pope Innocent III, to persecute the Cathars and destroy their non-Catholic Christianity.
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Around A.D. 300 who was the ruler that created the worst waves of persecution against the Christians in history?
In 300 AD, and the surrounding years, Diocletian persecuted Christians worse than they ever had been in history. This was known as the Diocletianic Persecution.
Which religious communities were never persecuted?
I doubt that any religious affiliations have ever escaped persecution. From Mormons to Buddhists, Catholics to Puritans...all have in some way faced persecution at least once throughout history.
How popular is Catholicism?
There are more Roman Catholic Christians alive today than there have ever been non-Catholic Christians - alive or dead - in all of history.
Have Christians ever persecuted other Christians?
Oh my goodness yes but Catholics: Alll this Roman Catholics did..... The 30 Years War The 100 Years War The Crusades The 7 Years War The English Civil War The War of the Roses The French War of Religion The Spanish-Dutch War The Spanish Armada The Conflict in Northern Ireland persecution of Hugenots, Catholics, Pilgrims, etc., at various phases in European history
What caused Constantine to end Rome's persecution of Christians and make Christianity the legal religion?
The end of the Great Persecution of the Christians was actually decreed by emperor Galerius in the Edict of Toleration by Galerius in 311. Galerius returned to toleration of Christianity and guaranteed the Christians freedom of worship and the right to be safe in order to restore political stability in the empire. The persecution had caused great social unrest around the empire which was threatening its stability.Co-emperors Constantine the Great and Licinus signed the Edict of Milan of 313. It reiterated the toleration of Christianity, extended it to all religions and provided for compensation by the state to those who had bought or received Christian property as a gift which had been confiscated during the persecution and returned it to the Christians. The main aim of the edict seems to have been to act as an order for the governor of Syria to stop persecuting the Christians in his province. This governor continued the persecution, ignoring Galerius' edict.Neither the Edict of Toleration by Galerius nor the Edict of Milan made Christianity legal. Christianity had never been made illegal. There had been alternations of periods of toleration and period of persecution, but no emperor ever made Christianity illegal.More generally Constantine the Great supported Christianity. When he became sole emperor in 327 he and built important churches: the original Basilica of St Peter's in Rome, the St John Lateran's Basilica (the city of Rome's first Cathedral and the original residence of the Popes), the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople and Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem. He promoted Christians to high position in the imperial bureaucracy and he mediated disputes between various Christian doctrines.
Why does history consider pagans evil?
"History", at least as far as books go, was largely written by Christian monks. Christians were biased in their writings. Have you ever heard the expression: The gods of an old religion become the devils of the new?
Where do Christians live in the world?
Christians live all over the world. In America Christians are free to worship when ever and where ever they want. In some other countries they are not allowed to worship in public, but there are still Christians all over the world.
While you read history you make history what does it mean?
it means that history is ever growing and ever evolving, every passing moment becomes history etc..
Why do Indonesian Muslims kill Christians?
Indonesian Muslims never ever kill Christians. It was just a political war when Christians selected to be separated from main land Indonesia for political reasons.
Did the Romans ever throw any Christians to the lions?
AnswerChristian tradition tells us that Nero was the first emperor to throw Christians to the lions, however this is unlikely to be true.There may well have been instances when Christians were thrown to the lions and, if so, this would more likely have been during the Great Persecution of Emperor Diocletian, which began in 303 CE and lasted until 305 in the West, but continued until 311 in the East. Edward Gibbon ('The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'), discussing the problems in sorting fact from legend, says, "The scanty and suspicious materials of ecclesiastical history seldom enable us to dispel the dark cloud that hangs over the first age of the church."
Do Christians ever refer to the lunar calendar?
Basically, only when calculating the day of "Easter".
What was the largest group of people ever to separate from England?
The puritans called Quakers were the most numerous. They were escaping religious persecution.
