During the 15th and 16th centuries a craze swept across Europe, it was a craze as deadly for its tens of thousands of mostly female victims as was the plague bacillus to the population as a whole.

From Hero or Villain: More Prisoners of Eternity.

The Spanish Inquisition was established on 1 November, 1478, by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, as an ecclesiastical tribunal designed to ensure religious orthodoxy in Spain. But it was always more than just a religious body becoming over time the political bulwark of the Spanish State preserving not just Sangre Limpia (clean blood) at home but also dictating policy both domestic and foreign.

Slaves lived at Martha’s Vineyare beginning around 1680, but the first slave on record was a woman named Rebecca Amos.

In my life, which has been undoubtedly short compared to most, I have experienced joy, hatred, love, fear, hypocrisy, sympathy, sadness..and religious downfalls. In many families here in America, Religion is a very sacred thing, and for most, it is the reason why they are here.

An examination of the persecution of saints such as Perpetua and Felicity during the third century AD.

The things people say and do can be so mean.

Like the Jews, the Anabaptists were persecuted for their faith by both Catholics and Protestants in the 15th and 16th centuries.

You’ve always heard about Rome persecuting the Christians, but what’s the truth?