we celebrate the Feast of Saint Stephen, the first martyr. We find the account of his martyrdom in the Acts of the Apostles, ...

After the First Martyr had been stoned to death (see Dec. 27), Gamaliel, his teacher, encouraged certain of the Christians to go by night and take up the Saint's body and bury ... they found a box ...

Every death is a martyrdom, but as the stones rained down on the first martyr, St Stephen, it would have been a worse cruelty ...

As the day of the spectacle drew near she was very distressed that her martyrdom would be postponed because of her pregnancy; for it is against the law for women with child to be executed.

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After excavations and DNA tests, the Vatican says they reached a conclusion, but some ...

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ALBAWABA - Hamas political bureau chief Yahya Sinwar prophesied his own martyrdom in his 2004 book "Thorns and Cloves." He said, "Now the time has come, O mother, for I saw myself storming their ...

When Donald Trump arrives this week at the Republican National Convention’s hall in Wisconsin, his supporters will greet a larger-than-life martyr who believes he was “handed a gift from God.” ...

COMMENTARY: Pope John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical reminds us to pray that we be more willing to die than to lie, cheat, steal, fornicate or commit adultery, let alone burn incense in front of an ...

(photo: Courtesy of IPN) Piotr Pietrus Features October 17, 2024 Ahead of the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of Blessed ... for the Homeland” at St. Stanislaus Kostka parish in Żoliborz ...

"His martyrdom will not interrupt the Islamic Ummah's resistance against bullying and occupation," President Masoud Pezeshkian said in his message on Martyr Sinwar on Friday. The Iranian Parliament ...

The West Bank-based Palestine Liberation Organization sung the praises of Hamas terror chief Yahya Sinwar, killed by the IDF on Wednesday, as it called for unity ...