Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, has co-authored a new paper in The Palgrave Handbook of African Christianity from Apostolic Times to the Present.

Before Islam became the dominant religion in North Africa, the region was a thriving center of early Christianity — and the birthplace of several Catholic popes whose influence still resonates today.

Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced from early Christian burials. Tel Malhata was a crossroads for trade routes ...

A new book recovers the significance of the church father’s geographic and cultural roots. To see one notable answer to that question, consider the work of the scholar Catherine Conybeare, who places ...

As Christian denominations in Africa join the preparation for the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, clerics, theologians, and laypeople are embracing the moment as a chance to ...