Since the church bombing, some Christians have been afraid to meet for church. A group of Kurdish Christians who are ...

Israel has threatened to increase its involvement in Syria and vowed to protect the Druze religious minority, which began as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam, the ...

Since 2010, Syria’s Christian community has plunged by 90 per cent, from two million, to 250,000 today, with most fleeing to the West. Furthermore, Father Jihad Youssef, superior of Syria’s 6th ...

And across the nearby border in Syria, Christian communities date back centuries. Now Christianity is dying in the Middle East, say church leaders in the region, under threat from militant Islam.

It was also the first targeting of the Christian community in Syria since a massacre in 1860 ... Thousands of Christians were also forced from their homes due to the threat from hardline Islamist and ...

The Syrian civil war has become a humanitarian hell. More than 100,000 are dead, images of a state-sanctioned chemical weapons attack have evoked a global protest, and most Western leaders agree ...

Before the start of Syria’s crisis in 2011, Christians made up 10–12 percent of the country’s 18 million people. Assyrian Christians—an ethnic as well as a religious community that traces its roots to ...

Members of Congress know that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad is the bad guy, but they're increasingly worried about toppling him from power, after Christian organizations have galvanized America ...

It’s been six months since longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled following a stunning rebel offensive that saw ...

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All of Syria’s churches, whether of the larger Orthodox community or Catholic, are facing an imminent existential threat both from the new authorities and general political chaos following the Assad ...

In the Triumph of Orthodoxy service on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the clergy and faithful proclaim – with many shouting – bold statements of faith from the year 787. "This is the Faith of ...