Since the very beginning, the church of Jesus Christ has been subjected to multiple waves of persecution. From the original Jewish faith that rejected the Messiah to Rome all the way to the modern extremist Islamic persecutions Christians have weathered the storm in our faith. Here you find a sampling of the many persecutions that have happened throughout history and the stories of real Christians who weathered them. For as Tertullian said, "The blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church"