Essays on Persecutions

For over 2000 years Christianity shapes people’s spirituality across the world. What started in Judea and gained important momentum in Ancient Rome, spread rapidly across the Middle Eve European societies, who further promulgated Christianity to the rest of the world. Through colonization, missionary work or violent imposition, Christianity is the world’s most spread religion since the age of the discoveries, in the late middle ages (Spielvogel 504). Nicholas Kristof’s (2015) article from New York Times, “For Many, Faith Comes at a High Price” discusses Christianity in the context of the current socio – political events, marked by ...

The 1348 emergence of Black Death in Europe marked significant changes in the social, economic, and even the psychological wellbeing of European nationals. Apparently, the plague was swift to spread. In Europe alone, there were cases in “Italy, France, Spain, and the Balkans” before the infection made its way into “Switzerland, Austria, England, and perhaps Denmark.” In other words, every nation by the end of the first half of the fourteenth century was aware of the same. Now, while the social and economic outcomes of the bubonic plague (another name for Black Death) are well explored, the circumstances under ...

Throughout the biblical history from Genesis to Revelation, the Bible talks about persecution/suffering and caring for the needy. The Old Testament does not emphasize it the way Jesus puts it in the New Testament. The Christian point of view of these two concepts is reflected by utilizing the examples set by Jesus, when He came to earth to save the souls of men. Jesus gave some teachings on why suffering and persecution was part of the Christian path and why it was the responsibility of Christians to care for the needy in the fulfillment of the God’s purpose ...