Christianity in Asia

Christianity impact on lives

May 17, 1001

Christianity gave human rights such as having the concept of universal human rights and equality from the Bible idea that all people are created from an image of God.

The 12 Apostles

Apr 23, 1025

Jesus main followers are these 12 Apostles. When Jesus dies on the crucifix, they were responsible to spread Christianity to the rest of the world.

Jesus begins Ministry

Apr 25, 1027

Jesus began his ministry when he was about 30 years old. Jesus died, rose and ascended into heaven about the age of 33.

Pentecost: The Birth of the Church

Jun 22, 1030

After Jesus resurrected he appeared to his disciples and instructed them for 40 days after when he ascended to heaven, and this happen at 30 A.D.

Founder of Christianity

Dec 25, 1033

The founder of Christianity is Jesus of Nazareth and he was born 2000 years before Bethlehem or in 4 B.C. The origin of Christianity is in Palestine. Christianity was formed in the year 33 A.D.

Paul's first missionary journey

Apr 25, 1046

Paul's first missonary journey was the shortest, in time and distance, a very significant development in the history of the new Christian church.

Paul's second missionary journey

Sep 28, 1049

The second journey began on unfortunate circumstance. Paul's secondary missonary began about 49 A.D. He did not return for 3 years until he was 52 years old.

Paul imprisoned in Rome

Jun 8, 1059

Paul brought an amazing series of events to Rome. When Paul wrote to the saints in Rome from Greece during his third missonary journey he expressed an intense longing to visit these Chrisitans.

John exiled on island of Patmos

Apr 25, 1090

John was the brother of the apostle James. His mother's name was Salome who is believed to be a sister of Jesus' mother Mary. The apostle John rose to a position of influence within world-wide Christianity.

Christians persecuted under Septimus Severus

Apr 25, 1202

In the early third century, during the reign of Septimis Severus, Eygpt and Africa became a hotbed of persecution and martyrdom.

Cyprian's Unity of the Catholic Church

Jan 25, 1249

In 249, the Empire launched an eleven year assault on the church, its most savage at this point. The suffering of the Church had some unexpected repercussions. Thousands died heroically for their faith, many Christians broke down and sacrificed for their gods.

Death of Constantine

Feb 27, 1272

Constantine was the first Roman emperor to support Christianity and become a Christian. From the time of Constantine, Christianity became an accepted Roman religion, and setback when his nephew Julian tried to reinstate the old Roman polytheistic beliefs.

The Spread of Christianity

Apr 23, 1300

By 300 C.E, Christianity became the accepted religion of Rome, which started to spread throughtout the empire. With the founding of the New World, Christianity began to spread beyond Europe and Asia. By the 1900s, Christianity has been spread to every continent in the world.

Birth of Augustine

Nov 13, 1354

St. Augustine was born on November 13, 354 A.D. St. Augustine is one of the four great fathers of the Latin Church. His father, Patricius, was a burgess of Tagaste and still a pagan at the time of his son's birth.

Basil the Great dies

Apr 25, 1379

St. Basil died at 379 St. Basil was born at Caesarea of Cappadocia in 330. He was one of ten children of St. Basil the Elder and St. Emmelia.Several of his brothers and sisters were honored among saints.

Council of Constantinople

Apr 25, 1381

Council of Constantinople was the second council of the Chrisitan church, summoned by the emperor Theodosius I and meeting in Constantinople.

Gregory of Nazianzus dies

Apr 25, 1389

Gregory lived in a turbulent time. Gregory of Nazianzus, his friend Basil the Great, and Basil's brother Gregory of Nyssa, are jointly known as the Cappadocian Fathers. Constantine won a battle in 312 and it made him Emperor of the West.

Christianity in Japan

Apr 22, 1549

A Jesuit priest named Fancis Xavier arrived in Japan in 1549. His willingness and zeal to suffer converted thousands in just two short years. Nestorian missonaries arrived in Japn and made the first churches in Japan by the 10th century.

Christianity in China

May 5, 1781

The existence of Christianity in China was around 781 A.D. The Christians in China were persecuted in the ninth and fifteenth centuries because Christianity was thought to be a "foreign" religion.

Council of Basel

Apr 25, 2014

Council of Basel was a general council of the Roman Catholic church held in Basel, Switz. Pope Martin V before he died in a few weeks then was confirmed by by Pope Eugenius IV. The council was inaugurated on July 23, 1431 but, when the pope’s legate, Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini, arrived in September, he found few people there.