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Saul convinced the high priest to allow him to go to Damascus and bring back any men who belonged to ‘the Way’. Saul wanted to punish these disciples of Jesus and convince them to give up their newly found beliefs. While Saul was travelling, the sky around him suddenly flashed white and he heard a voice crying out, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ Saul soon discovered that the voice belonged to Jesus, ‘I am Jesus, who you are persecuting.’ He begun following the teachings of God..
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Christians were targeted for persecution, Nero was blamed for a fire in Rome, he diverted attention when he ordered that Christians be round up and killed.
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Constantine the Great was a Roman Emperor, As the first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity, Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan in 313, which decreed tolerance for Christianity in the empire. He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was professed by Christians.
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break of communion since the 11th century between the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches. The schism was the culmination of theological and political differences which had developed during the preceding centuries
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Martin Luther and John Calvin. Having far-reaching political, economic, and social effects, the Reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestantism, one of the three major branches of Christianity.
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addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world.