Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said "532 Alawite civilians were killed in the coastal regions of Syria and the Latakia mountains by security forces and allied ...

Still, Syrian Christians are worried, wondering if the new government will target them next. The revenge killings mark 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, after decades of persecution.

The leaders of Syria's three main Christian churches have issued a joint statement condemning "massacres targeting innocent civilians", following reports of mass killings of Alawite civilians by the ...

telling the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that “without Christians, there can be no future for Syria” and urged the faithful to remain steadfast despite the trying ...

Gregorios Bishara, priest of the Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation, was martyred this morning at the hands of the ...

As part of an effort to deepen its influence in southern Syria, Israel has been seeking stronger ties with the Druse religious minority that holds sway there. By Aaron Boxerman Reporting from ...

Syria's top Christian leaders have condemned the killing and wounding of hundreds of Alawites, many of them civilians, by security forces and gunmen linked to the country's new Islamist rulers. The ...

“It is the intention of the Holy Father that, in the current situation in Syria, they feel the affection and support of the entire Catholic Church,” the dicastery stated.

JERUSALEM—The former al Qaeda terrorist and current Interim President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, failed to stop a massacre of over 1,000 Syrians, including Christians, that unfolded last ...