You could have one for every century. I only have ninety seconds, so we’ll skip a few centuries. In the early church, I love the Martyrdom of Polycarp, which is a second-century text. It gives us ...

NORTH WAZIRISTAN / PESHAWAR: At least eight people, including four policemen and two security officials, embraced martyrdom and several others were injured in a suicide bomb blast at a joint ...

Martyrdom in Thessaloniki Demetrius was originally from Thessaloniki and was an active member of the Christian community during times of harsh persecution against Christians. Under Diocletian ...

I offer my congratulations and condolences on the martyrdom of our dear Sayyed Safieddine to his honorable family, his relatives, and his fellow fighters across all Resistance fronts, Imam Khamenei ...

The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, offered condolences on the martyrdom of Safieddine on the path to the liberation of Al-Quds. “The Qassam Brigades commends the role of the martyr, ...

Israel killed more than 1,000 Lebanese, mostly civilians in the 34-day conflict. Israel lost more than 120 soldiers in the 34-day war. Before his martyrdom, Nasrallah had said on multiple occasions ...

What are black community leaders thinking? This attempted martyrdom of Chris Kaba is utterly insane. We have all seen abuses of police power. We have all seen cases where armed officers have used ...

Three and a half years before Alexei Navalny was murdered by Vladimir Putin, he was very nearly killed by him, and he described the feeling of sliding into oblivion. “It’s all lies, what they ...

Ismail Al-Sandavi, the representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in Syria, announced in an interview with the Arabic section of the Russia Today (RT) network that neither Ziyad ...

Many citizens, Christian and otherwise, have left the city since the start of Syria's civil war in 2011. The martyrdom of the Damascus group canonised on Sunday "is not very different from the ...

The flames did not harm him and he was finally killed by a dagger. The centurion ordered the saint’s body burned. The “Acts” of Polycarp’s martyrdom are the earliest preserved, fully reliable account ...

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 ...