WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus ( c. 27–29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles (c. 100) and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age.

Detailed explanation-2: -The written records of the Saint Thomas Christians state that Christianity was introduced in the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apostle, who sailed to the Malabar region in the present-day Kerala state in 52 AD.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first recorded use of the term (or its cognates in other languages) is in the New Testament, in Acts 11 after Barnabas brought Saul (Paul) to Antioch where they taught the disciples for about a year, the text says that “the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch” (Acts 11:26).

Detailed explanation-4: -Christianity began in Judea in the present-day Middle East. Jews there told prophecies about a Messiah who would remove the Romans and restore the kingdom of David. What we know about Jesus’s life and his birth around 6 B.C.E., comes from the four Gospels.