Tarsus, Turkey CNN — It has a 7,000-year-old ... who can often be found sharing his knowledge with tourists at Saint Paul Café and Restaurant, owned by his family. “Even now, students come ...

A dramatic roadside conversion turned Saul into Paul (circa AD 3 - 67) and a persecutor of Christians into one of their greatest missionaries. But in spreading the word, Paul would ruffle many ...

The Bible introduces Paul, not as an apostle, but a soul of Tarsus, a Pharisee and enemy of the church, who persecutes Christians and all that they stand for, a threat to the ancient religion of ...

The conversion of Paul the Apostle was a watershed moment ... Acts of the Apostles tells the story of one man, Saul of Tarsus, who played a huge role in spreading early Christianity.

I would like to devote these two catecheses to him. And the history of Paul of Tarsus is emblematic in this regard. In the first chapter of the Letter to the Galatians, as in the narration of the ...

is the commemoration of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Simon Peter and Paul of Tarsus, celebrated on June 29. As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI recalled in 2012, "Christian tradition has always ...