TEL TAL, Syria -- It was a mournful moment for Christians in Syria. A bell that once summoned residents to worship rang out, but the church was no longer there. The Saint Odisho church was blown up by ...

The monastery’s mother superior, Sr. Pelagia Sayyaf, and 11 other Orthodox nuns were taken away to the nearby rebel stronghold of Yabrud. Though some rebel sources insisted that the sisters had been ...

Syria has announced an immediate nationwide ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces SDF , ending nearly two ...

It's been more than five years now since the two most important figures in Syria's Christian communities were kidnapped in a no-man's land between rebel and regime-held territory, whisked away without ...

A top Syrian Christian leader publicly rebuked President Ahmed al-Sharaa during a funeral service last Tuesday, blaming his administration for failing to protect religious minorities after a suicide ...

Hundreds of Christian fighters from across Syria have arrived in the majority-Syriac Christian town of Sadad to prevent it falling into the hands of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), the head ...

Although it was not the first encounter between Al-Shar’a and Christian religious leaders, the meeting was significant because it was his first official visit to a church since taking office in ...

ST. GEORGE ANTIOCHIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, 2587 W. 14th St., was established by the United Syrian Orthodox Society, formed 10 March 1911 with the name of St. Nicholas Syrian Orthodox Christian Society, to ...