Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Lukasik explores how American evangelical narratives of global Christian persecution have ...

Considering the U.S.’s alliance with Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi during an era of such widespread Christian persecution in Egypt, World Coptic Day will hopefully be a testament of ...

Despite this, Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire. When asked by Pliny the Younger how to deal ...

The book is made of papyrus and written in Coptic, an Egyptian language in which many important early Christian texts are ... official religion of the Roman empire. Antisemitism had been growing ...