It was a most remarkable wedding. Vanessa grew up in our United Methodist congregation. Marwan was a native of Damascus and a ...

Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

Scholars participating in the conference and one of the organizers, Kyriacos Batsaras, who is the head of the Assyrian Union of Greece, called on the government of Greece to officially recognize the ...

Also their liturgy was originally in the Syriac language which the Chaldean church used. Although an ancient rite, it had no single administrator until Pope John Paul II appointed a Major ...

The Greek Foreign Minister visits his counterpart in Cairo to express his discontent over the ruling that grants Egypt the rights to the lands of this monastery, run by the Orthodox Church. A ...

Christians from both Eastern Catholic and Orthodox backgrounds face threats that put their entire future at risk.

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has ...

The Greek language thrived under Roman rule as Latin remained limited; cultural pride and education preserved Eastern ...

Undertaken alongside the genocides of Armenian and Greek Christians by the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, the genocide, known as the “Sayfo” in the Syriac language, claimed at ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.