In many countries, Dec. 26, also known as Boxing Day, is better known as St. Stephen’s Day. Stephen was the first Christian martyr. This is the story ...

. . . it's worth recalling that the Greek word "martyr" originally means "witnesses." Like the Apostles and the holy women ...

On St. Stephen’s Day, observed on the third day of Christmas, the Orthodox Church commemorates the first Christian martyr, ...

VATICAN: On the feast of Saint Stephen, the first martyr of the Church, Pope Leo XIV invited the faithful to contemplate martyrdom not as an end, but as a beginning: a “birth into heaven” that reveals ...

VATICAN CITY The peacemaking and pacifist Pope chose St. Stephen's Day, the first Christian martyr, to remind us that the ...

Panaji: Just 10km from Old Goa’s Bom Jesus Basilica, where pilgrims and tourists clamour for St Francis Xavier’s relics, a ...