The spread of Christianity - Christianity is becoming extremely popular on a Global level. There are proven to be around 25 million conversions (from other religions) to Christianity, per year. It is estimated this number will grow widely around places such as Africa and some parts of Asia.
Persecution of Christians - Christians are persecuted and abused in several Muslim countries. These include areas such as Palestine, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Though, over the last few years, the abuse has started to slow as the UN tries to put a stop to the religiously motivated attacks.
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The first Christian churches in the Roman empire were private homes. Christianity was a clandestine cult at its start and there could be no public display of the faith. This was due to the persecution of the mainstream Jews who considered the Christians a blasphemous offshoot of Judaism. When Christianity spread to other parts of the empire, the private home type of church continued, especially when the persecutions began.
Paul of Tarsus, who was previously known as Saul spread Christianity as the first Christian missionary, or person who spreads their belief to non-believers. He travelled across the Roman Empire, sending Christian messages to gentiles and non-Jewish communities as well as to Jews. This allowed more people to follow the faith. He preached about Christianity in new areas where no one had preached before, and established Christianity there.
Christianity did not contribute to the collapse of the empire. It contributed to a greater sense of unity and more stability. Christianity became the religion of the masses in the empire. It was declared a tolerated religion because the great persecution of Christians by Diocletian had created serious unrest. Once the state acknowledged Christianity, unrest ceased and the state regained legitimacy in the eyes of the Christian masses.
Yes, he was Many of his biographies say that he was Christian. In some textbooks it says that he was asked by Queen Elizabeth I to spread Christianity.
Christianity was spread around the Roman Empire by the teachings of the apostles who travelled in the eastern part of the empire, North Africa and Rome to spread the gospels. The work of Tertullian laid the foundations of Latin or Western Christianity from Carthage in Tunisia. It became the mainstream Christianity of the western part of the Roman Empire. Latin Christianity later came to be called Catholicism. The foundation of Greek or Eastern Christianity were laid by the theologians of the Catechetical School of Alexandria in Egypt (which according to Jerome, who was a priest, theological and historian of Christianity, was founded by Mark the Apostle) and the School of Antioch in Syria. It became the mainstream Christianity of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Later it came to be called Orthodox Christianity. Arius, an ascetic Christian priest in Alexandria of Libyan origin, spread a dissident Christian doctrine which was popular around the empire. It was called Arian Christianity or Arianism and it was the main dissident Christian doctrine. It was suppressed from 380 on when the co-emperors Gratian and Theodosius I decreed that Latin and Greek Christianity were the sole legitimate religion of the Roman Empire in the Edict of Thessalonica of 380. Dissident Christian doctrines were branded as heretic and banned. The persecution of the Arian Christians begun soon after the issuing of this edict.
because jesus died for his beliefs
He ended the persecution of Christians
Persecution occurred off and on over two centuries until 313 AD when Constantine came into power. The persecution did influence the development of Christianity and shaping the theology and structure of the church. Many saints cults were also a by product which may have helped the rapid spread of Christianity.
Christian Europeans colonised America.
The Romans did not try to stop the spread of Christianity. There were alternations between periods of toleration and periods of persecution. Some Roman emperors thought that Christianity was a threat to the Roman state because many bureaucrats and soldiers converted to Christianity. The Romans saw their state as being interlinked with Roman Religion. The persecutions were aimed mainly at the civil service and the Christian clergy, rather than Christianity as such. The last and worse persecution, the Great Persecution, failed because it was difficult to implement, because of the resistance of the Christians and because it undermined the stability of the empire. After that, the emperors endorsed Christianity, favored it over other religions and promoted it. Eventually, Christianity became the state religion of the empire. With imperial support, the spread of Christianity accelerated.
As Christianity spread it faced many oppositions. Some of the Christian that helped in spreading the gospel were persecuted, jailed and tortured.
OPINION Because the persecution only fanned the flames in Christian's hearts. And because if you are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for something, you really and truly believe in it.
to spread their Christianity and culture
Persecution of early Christians helped spread their message by creating fervent believers willing to face persecution for their faith, inspiring others to join the movement. The resilience of persecuted Christians also demonstrated the strength of their beliefs, making Christianity more attractive to outsiders. Additionally, persecution often led to the scattering of believers, resulting in the spread of Christianity to new regions.
The first Christian churches in the Roman empire were private homes. Christianity was a clandestine cult at its start and there could be no public display of the faith. This was due to the persecution of the mainstream Jews who considered the Christians a blasphemous offshoot of Judaism. When Christianity spread to other parts of the empire, the private home type of church continued, especially when the persecutions began.
The Roman emperor Constantine the Great ceased the persecution of the christian church that occurred before his reign. Constantine himself most likely converted to Christianity. However, he did very little on his own to spread the gospel and Christianity. Once Christianity was accepted by the ruling class, beginning with Constantine, recognition of Christianity as the official religion was well underway. Most believe that Constantine was exposed to the gospel by his mother. This would make good sense as she was a professing Christian.
After Jesus' crucifixion, his followers continued to spread his teachings, leading to the growth of the early Christian movement. Persecution by the Roman authorities and internal conflicts within the movement eventually led to the establishment of Christianity as a separate religion.