The road from Jerusalem to Europe is a long one, and the journey to North America is even longer. The distance increases when we think of Jerusalem as the capital of Judea in the first century A.D., called Hierosolyma by the Romans, controlled by a Roman governor in Caesarea Maritima. Jerusalem was the city where the first Christian community came into existence, the “mother church” of all Christian churches and denominations. Jerusalem was the city where the early Christian missionary movement
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