"The synod is a new way for the Church to proceed ... to do in Lebanon." In a rain-soaked St. Peter's Square, visitors echoed this sentiment. Hashin Al Ard, a Syrian-Canadian tourist, said ...

It was signed by the patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox and Melkite Greek Catholic Churches. The reported killings on the Mediterranean coast the heartland of the Alawite religious ...

The Kurdish Christians, who are currently living in Aleppo, Syria, are part of the nondenominational Good Shepherd Church but currently have no place to safely meet. The church has added more ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria fear the Middle Eastern nation has traded one oppressor for another since ...

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 ...

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 ...

Terry Mattingly writes: hundreds of ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians, have been killed by Islamist militias in Syria.

Their churches, schools, and homes have come under fire in the ongoing civil war, and the fear of further displacement looms once again. Arch at Station 9 on Way of the Cross near Coptic ...