The growth of Christianity in the Roman Empire was greatly hampered by persecution in the 1st century A.D. In the beginning, the Roman Government did not make any distinction between Judaism (the religion of Jews) and Christianity. Since all of them were of Jewish origin. As a result, the Christians were not persecuted. They enjoyed the freedom of worship that the Roman government granted the Jews. It was not until riots broke out between the two religions that the Roman Government saw Christianity as a separate religion from Judaism, and withdrew the freedom of worship it had granted to Christians. From that time there was a great persecution against the Christians in the Roman Empire. This affected the growth of the Church as a great number of Christians gave up their faith for fear of persecution. They were tortured and killed most cruelly. The persecution stopped when one of the Roman Emperors, Constantine became a Christian. He gave Christian religious freedom and recognition throughout the Roman Empire. By the 2nd Century AD, Christian European missionaries had established Churches in France and parts of North Africa such as Egypt. Between the 2nd and 8th centuries, Christianity expanded to Europe. Very soon there were many more Churches all over European countries such as Italy, Britain, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and Germany. Later, Churches were established in America. The European missionaries then took the gospel to other continents Asia, Australia, and...

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