From a related article on David Alan Black's Website (I have several of his books on NT Greek and Linguistics):
I have recently been reading a book entitled Warriors of Ethiopia (see *** below). I highly recommend this book! It will open your eyes to the things suffered by Ethiopian evangelists in winning the Omo Valley of southeastern Ethiopia for the Gospel. The persecution often came from the Orthodox priests, and these priests controlled the judges and government officials. Why were these “Christians” so opposed to the Word of God? Because it changed society! Those accepting the Gospel had changed lives. They no longer lived in fear, they no longer bribed officials or paid the church tax, they no longer blindly obeyed the priests. For the first time in their lives, they lived in joy and peace and freedom. Wherever the Gospel was received, society changed, and the old order (including the Orthodox hierarchy) fought back. (As a child, I was stoned by Orthodox children, on order of their priests; thankfully, I was able to get away before serious damage was done.)
I think Becky (who wrote the above) must be Dave's wife.
Per Theophorus, her description of Church history is pretty simplistic and faulty and betrays an ignorance of scholarly studies of the subject, IMO:
If you remember your Christian history, in the first few hundred years after our Lord’s death and resurrection, the Body of Jesus met in homes, led by “non-professional” men, suffering greatly at the hands of non-believing Gentiles and Jews alike. The fellowship of the Churches was unstructured; there were no seminaries or formal Bible schools. The Gospel flowed from town to town as the people of God moved from town to town. Sometimes these people were sent by the Churches as missionaries (for example, Paul and Barnabas); sometimes they were just scattered by persecution (such as Priscilla and Aquila). But everywhere Christians went, they spoke of the Way of Jesus; theirs was a living testimony filled with the Spirit.
Then came Constantine. It was 312 years after the birth of our Lord Jesus. As Constantine came to his final battle, the city of Rome lay before him. Hailed as Augustus by his troops in the western part of the Roman Empire, he was now conquering the eastern part to unite all of the Empire under his leadership. He had a vision of a cross just prior to the battle. In the confidence of that vision, he won the victory. And after the victory, he pronounced that all his empire would become “Christian.” All of his soldiers were baptized upon his command and a cross was painted on their shields. Thus was born the “Holy Roman Empire.”
And what was the effect of this first “Christian” Emperor upon the Lord’s Church? He ended the persecution of the Christians through the Edict of Milan. He joined pagan things with Christian things to form synergistic religion. (For example, the celebration of Christ’s birth was joined to the worship of the birthday of the pagan sun god; this sun god was Constantine’s favorite pagan god.) He built Christian monuments and buildings beside pagan ones; the old St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem were built by him. He gave some of the government functions to the church, such that the church became an arm of the government. He called together councils of church leaders to debate and decide doctrinal issues. (For example, the Council of Nicea decided the canon of the Scriptures.) During the structuring of his empire, the Bishop of Rome, the Bishop of Antioch, and the Bishop of Alexandria were established; later the Bishop of Constantinople and the Bishop of Jerusalem were added.
How can she ask us to remember something which she herself apparently has never really studied? 
She sounds like she saw THE DA VINCI CODE one too many times.
