where Paul was crowned in a death like John’s” (John the Baptist). He added: “This is the way Apostolic Churches transmit their lists: like the Smyrnaens, which records that Polycarp was ...

The celebration on Jan. 25 marked the solemn conclusion of this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which the Pope ...

Pope Francis posed Jesus’ question “Do you believe this?” to Christians worldwide during an ecumenical vespers service on ...

The deceased was a philanthropist who loved giving back to the Bulamu Village community in Gayaza, Wakiso District, where she ...

Many Nigerians believe that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is losing its bite as an anti-graft agency. Legal experts have weighed in on how the commission can restore confidence ...

In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by two brothers ... officiated by Fr. Polycarp Ssebowa. Burial, with full military honors, will follow at 1 p.m. at Fort Smith National Cemetery ...

The classic is the martyrdom of the elderly bishop Polycarp. The whole account unfolds along the lines of a liturgy. Polycarp even delivers a long prayer that is modeled after the Eucharistic ...

with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of Peter before he went to Rome. In 117 he was sentenced to death by the Emperor Trajan and ...

According to tradition, the letter is authentically Pauline and it has been accepted as such because it self-identifies him as the author and because early church figures like Polycarp and ...

Christian belief is costly In the year 155AD the Christian bishop of Symrna Polycarp a man who had served the Lord for 86 years exclaimed as he went to his martyr's death, “How then can I blaspheme my ...