Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation between diverse sects.

At the blood-stained Saint Elias church in Damascus, Umm George wept as she desperately searched for her son, who was among the worshippers when a suicide bomber struck on Sunday. In vain, she tried to convince Syrian security forces,

The suicide bombing in a church near Damascus, Syria has killed at least 20 people - a government minister said the attacker was a member of the Islamic State group