Ad Policy Syrians celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad regime and the New Year’s Eve in the capital, Damascus, on December ...

A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem ... Spaniards in backpacks emblazoned with the logo of their local parish, Ethiopians in snow-white ...

That day came last week, when the Syrian autocrat fled to Russia as the ... The largest Christian sect in the country is Eastern Orthodox Christians under the authority of the ancient Greek ...

An order from India’s top court has rekindled hope for settling a property dispute between two warring factions of the Oriental Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, which is based in southern Kerala ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

Ethiopian pilgrims pray during a Mass service for Ethiopian Christmas at the Bole Medhane Alem cathedral in Addis Ababa, ...

In Christianity’s early centuries, Syria became one of the faith’s main intellectual centers, producing some of its most important leaders and thinkers. At the beginning of the country’s civil war in ...

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CHURCH leaders will continue to meet members of the new interim Syrian government, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East has said. Its intention is to secure “societal peace for ...

The statement did not make clear which groups attended, but Syria has factions made up of Muslim Kurds and Shi'ites, as well as Syriac, Greek and Armenian Orthodox Christians, and the Druze community.