Christians are not persecuted?

Over 70 million Christians have been martyred over the last two millennia.
Men, women, and children who chose death over denying Christ.

This is the story of Christian persecution - a 🧵✝️

Today, leaders hide behind desks, bureaucracy and speeches.

But there was a time when kings, saints & generals fought and bled alongside their men.

They led not by words, but by example.

Here are 8 great leaders who fought on the front lines - a🧵✝️
Alexander the Great

King of Macedonia. He never sent his men anywhere he wouldn't go himself.

At the Battle of the Granicus, he fought in the vanguard and was wounded in the head with a sword. In India, he took arrows to the chest and nearly died.

He never lost a single battle.

The Holy Shroud of Turin is real. Jesus Christ IS God.

And our Lord and Saviour looked exactly as ancient christians depicted Him

The year was 1139, and the Iberian sun burned over a land at war. Portugal, a small Kingdom, stood in defiance of Islamic Rule

Their leader? D. Afonso Henriques a man determined to achieve the impossible

This is the tale of the Birth of Portugal & the battle of Ourique - a🧵✝️
On the eve of the fateful battle, Dom Afonso knelt alone in his tent, his sword planted in the earth before him. He had led his men deep into enemy territory, outnumbered five to one. His heart was strong, but even the mightiest of kings seek guidance before the storm of war.

The year was 1177, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem stood on the edge of annihilation.

The great Sultan Saladin swepted across the land with an army of nearly 26,000 men

Outnumbered 20 to 1 Baldwin the young leper King stood in defiance.

The battle for the Holy Land - a 🧵✝️
With what many believed to be the end of campaign season, many of Baldwin’s barons had already ridden north.

But when word reached Jerusalem of Saladin’s approach, Baldwin, the young leper King, did not hesitate. War was once again upon them and they were to fight, or die.

Catholicism in Japan - a🧵 🇯🇵✝️

Across 3,500 km, a straight line connects 7 ancient sanctuaries, all dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel

From the West to the Holy Land, all perfectly aligned.
A coincidence? Or a path traced by Heaven?

The Line of Saint Michael - a🧵✝️
The first point is Skellig Michael island, in Ireland.
Medieval monks arrived here in the 7th century and built a church dedicated to Saint Michael around 950 A.D.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, revolutionary mobs stormed churches & persecuted the faithful.

One of the first things they did?
They opened fire on a statue of Jesus Christ.

Why? Because it was a war against God.

The Spanish Civil War & Christ's Victory - a 🧵🇪🇸
The Spanish Civil War wasn’t just politics.
It was a war against God.

The Republican side, dominated by communists and anarchists, launched one of the bloodiest persecutions of Christians in modern history.

Churches were burned, altars desecrated & priests tortured and killed.

In 1627, Cardinal Richelieu, stood at the front lines of war.

A Protestant stronghold defied crown and altar.
The Church was in peril.

He wasn’t carrying a sword, but he did build a seawall across the sea.

The Siege of La Rochelle - a 🧵✝️ La Rochelle wasn’t just any city.

It was France’s most powerful Protestant stronghold, wealthy, defiant, and allied with England.

Richelieu saw it as a threat to both monarchy and Church.

To save the kingdom from fracture, he believed one faith, one king was essential.

So he acted.

Why should you believe in God?
Because the alternative is madness.
The greatest minds agreed on this.

If there is no God, then there is no truth, no right or wrong, no meaning.

But if there is, everything makes sense.

Why God is, logically, real - a🧵✝️
Human beings long for the divine and the sacred.

>You long for justice.
>You long for beauty.
>You long for truth.
>You long for love.

These things don’t evolve from slime.

They are eternal, and they point beyond the material world.

They point to God.

The Bible isn’t just a story, and Cambridge University is proving exactly that.

3,224 years ago, Joshua commanded the sun to stand still.
Now astronomers say it really happened.

The day Joshua paused the sky - a 🧵✝️
“Sun, stand still over Gibeon. And moon, over the Valley of Ayalon.” - Joshua 10,12

For centuries, scholars dismissed this verse as poetic metaphor. But what if it described a real, historical event?

Is there proof of Jesus outside the Bible? Yes.
History confirms Him

His name echoes through Roman and Jewish records.
Even those who opposed Him couldn’t ignore Him.

Here’s how history itself remembers Jesus of Nazareth, the Living God - a🧵✝️

If the tale of Saint Christopher doesn't make you want to hit the gym I don't know what will.

He was a warrior who served kings, then the devil himself.

But when he met Christ, everything changed.

This is the story of Saint Christopher, the Christ-bearer - 🧵✝️ They say his name was Reprobus.
He was said to be a Canaanite, a giant in both stature and strength.

So powerful, he vowed to serve only the greatest king on earth. But that quest would take him to the edge of hell, and back.

Spiritual disciplines to grow closer to God - a 🧵✝️

By: thechristianitypill

People claim there is no evidence for God

That miracles no longer happen
That the Eucharist is just a symbol

But what if the Sacred Host turned into flesh?
What if it bled, and science could not explain it?

It did, multiple times, these are the Eucharistic Miracles - a 🧵✝️ 1. Lanciano, Italy (8th Century)

In the city of Lanciano, Italy, around the 8th century, a Basilian monk reportedly doubted the doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

During Mass, upon pronouncing the words of consecration, he witnessed the bread and wine transform into human flesh and blood.

In feudal Japan, a 16-year-old Catholic boy led a rebellion against the mighty Tokugawa shogunate.

They called him the “Messenger of Heaven.”

He performed miracles. He prophesied victory.

This is the story of Shiro Amakusa and his heroic stand for the Faith - a 🧵✝️ In the 16th century, Portuguese and Spanish missionaries converted thousands of Japanese to Catholicism.

But the Tokugawa shogunate struck back with brutal persecution: Churches destroyed, priests expelled, thousands of faithful tortured and killed.

If you think this cross is Satanic, you know nothing about Christianity.

The upside-down cross is the sign of one of the greatest saints in history. A symbol of humility. Of martyrdom. Of true apostolic faith.

This is the truth about the Cross of Saint Peter - a 🧵
Saint Peter wasn’t just one of the Twelve, he was the first. Jesus gave him the keys:
“You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church.” - Matthew 16,18

But Peter was not a perfect man, he denied Christ three times.

And it was precisely through this fall that he became a vessel of mercy.

Christianity is not against Science.
Science was born in the cradle of Christendom.

Some of the greatest scientific minds in history were devout Christians who saw no contradiction between reason and revelation.

Here are 8 brilliant scientists who believed in God - a🧵
1. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)

A canon of the Catholic Church and a true Renaissance polymath, Copernicus revolutionized astronomy with his heliocentric model, placing the Sun at the center of the cosmos.

Far from being a rebel against the Church, he remained a loyal son of it. His magnum opus De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was dedicated to Pope Paul III.

Earlier, Pope Clement VII had received Copernicus' ideas with interest and no condemnation.

Copernicus believed his discoveries revealed the divine harmony of creation.

Today is Father’s Day.

But what virtues make a man truly a great father?
Saint Joseph, is the perfect example to follow.

Here are the virtues every father should learn from him - a 🧵✝️ 1) Faith

Joseph believed the angel without hesitation (Mt 1,20-24).

He accepted a mystery greater than himself: the virginal conception of Jesus.

Fathers must lead their families with radical trust in God's plan.

Today is Father’s Day.
So lets remember the example all fathers should follow.
Saint Joseph, Terror of demons, Guardian of the Virgin,
Foster father of the Son of God.

A man of silence, strength, and sacrificial love.
Chosen to lead the Holy Family.

This is his story - a 🧵✝️
One fateful day, Joseph was betrothed to a young maiden, Mary, pure of heart and radiant with grace.

But before their union could be sealed, the heavens trembled, and a revelation came: a revelation that would test the core of his soul.

Mary was found with child, a child not conceived by man, but by the Holy Spirit.

Constantine the Great is known was the Emperor who made Rome Christian.

But few understand just how radically he changed the course of human history

This is the story of how Constantine turned the tide for the Church - a 🧵✝️ Before Constantine the Great, Christians were hunted, tortured and executed.

The Roman Empire demanded loyalty to false gods, but the followers of Christ would not bow.

And they paid in blood.