CROSS UNDER CROSSFIRE
Both believers and unbelievers should agree that the unifying symbol of the cross accompanied Western civilisation during all its pathway through history. Since rabbi Yehoshua, better known as Jesus Christ, was reportedly convicted by Roman law and nailed on a wooden cross, his aglow jewish followers sworm across the vast empire in order to spread cross, gospel and torah among the peoples. Christianity came to compete with many other faiths under Rome's multicultural pantheon, and enjoyed an extraordinary advance among grassroots classes, and also among the middle class. Notwithstanding hostility and persecutions, Christian faith eventually broke through the establishment. Emperor Constantine converted, giving Christianity a legal status by means of the Edict of Milan , 313 AD. Constantine's biographers state that before a decisive battle the Emperor saw a cross of light in the sky with the greek words " ἐν τούτῳ νίκα", which means "in this sign you ...