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.

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 ...

For Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians, ... Worship: What Age for Christian Soldiers? Worship: What Age for Christian Soldiers? 4 minute read. TIME. February 24, 1967 12:00 AM GMT-5.

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 ...