The Early Church, pt. 1 -- Christianity on the Road
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Early on in the Christian Church, India, and Armenia
We don't know exactly how christianity first reached india, but traditional church stories say that it was brought by the apostle thomas. There is still to day a very ancient christian church in carola, in the southwestern tip findia. The faith reportedly was brought up to the northeast, into the kingdom of armenia, by apostles named thad s and bartholomew who were persecuted. Another very early fertile ground was ethiopia. It seems that the christian message reached ethiopia very quickly through trade and diplomacy, particularly by way of jews. But allso, very early on, it seems, we don't know the details of how it
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