The First Crusade lasted from 1096 ... and claimed Antioch. The following conquest, and the most important one, was the Holy City itself, Jerusalem. Jerusalem, at that point, was under the control ...

Some 900 years ago, 10,000 Christians answered the pope's call and set off for Jerusalem ... Author of The First Crusade: A New History the Roots of Conflict Between Christianity and Islam.

According to Catholic News Agency, the cross predates the First Crusade (1096-1099), but became more common after the Kingdom of Jerusalem adoptedthe cross as its chief banner in the 1200s before ...

and summoned the First Crusade to fight the forces of Islam in the east. The crusade would be launched the following year and saw a brutal military victory in the city of Jerusalem in July of 1099.

“Today, when we see the so-called status quo agreement in Jerusalem, that’s the baseline for it.” The clearest violation of this baseline occurred almost 400 years later, in the First Crusade.

Nearly a thousand years ago, European Christians embarked on what became known as the First Crusade: an unprecedented, massive military campaign to take Jerusalem from Muslims and claim the holy ...

The Associated Press recently claimed that President-elect Trump’s nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, had tattoos supposedly connected with Christian nationalism and even white ...

The first is Jerusalem on the day of the Crucifixion; the second, Antioch in the time of the first crusade; third, Palermo, Sicily, in 1290; and fourth, Seville in 1560, during the Inquisition.