Christians have incredibly ancient roots in Syria. From the years after the resurrection where even the apostle Paul was ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an ...

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 ...

Other prominent Christian figures joined Syria's opposition. - The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic Syria.

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

Forced into sexual slavery at age 11, Mayada was sold seven times before she escaped ISIS. There are still 2,600 other women and girls missing in captivity today and their families want justice.

Newroz Market sells made-to-order specialties -- including shawarma -- along with shelved delicacies shipped from across the ...

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.

The land's ancient Christian communities — the biblical Book of Acts notes that “in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians” — were decimated by the Syrian civil war that began ...