After this event he was baptized and became a Christian, and no longer wanted to be a soldier in the Roman Army, which presented quite a difficulty. About the year 340 he asked for a discharge ...

The discovery of the grave of a Roman soldier named Tiberius Panthera, member of a cohort of Syrian archers stationed in Palestine in the first century, might support those ancient rumors.

Christian outrage as Basic Instinct director plans film of Jesus being the child of Roman soldier who raped Virgin Mary Dutch director Paul Verhoeven will direct the ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

But you say that Roman soldiers brutally occupied Galilee in the period before Jesus was born, ... But I also find that my fellow liberals are often deeply unfair to conservative Christians.

Throughout medieval times, Easter was often a dangerous time for Jewish communities, whom Christians targeted as “Christ-killers.”This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass ...