A 1.37-inch inscription could upend our understanding of the religion’s spread.

In his new book, Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings that Made Christianity, Fergus Butler-Gallie attempts to do just that but on a global scale. The 12 churches in the book are from ...

Explore the spread of Christianity from the year 30, following the death of Jesus, to the year 1000 during the height of the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have deciphered a mysterious inscription hidden within an ...

Washington State University historian Matthew Avery Sutton has published a comprehensive history of Christianity in America, ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found buried ...

Matthew Avery Sutton’s impressive new history is insightful, helpful, colorful—and incomplete. Writing a comprehensive history of American Christianity is a mammoth undertaking that few historians ...

About 5 miles from my apartment, there is an old church that was built on a fifth-century Roman mausoleum in what is now the small town of Saint-Prex on Lake Geneva. It is one of the oldest churches ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of ...