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 ...

In 1928, Charles Rufus Morey, chair of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology, proposed the exploration and excavation of the ancient and medieval site of Antioch, located in northern Syria ...

Abductions by IS in Syria have put focus on ancient group who moved from Iraq ... missionaries from Palestine or Antioch, in modern-day Turkey, settled to the west of the Parthian empire close ...

Reports of massacres and intercommunal violence in Syria this month have been devastating ... Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch; Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Syriac Patriarch of Antioch and All ...

KOCHI: Keeping with the ancient traditions of the Syrian Orthodox Church, Malankara Metropolitan Joseph Mor Gregorios was anointed the Catholicos of the Jacobit ...

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TASS/. Syrian President Bashar Assad has said at a meeting with Russia’s delegation that attempts are being made to divide the Church of Antioch in Syria and Lebanon in a manner similar to 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. "This is the Faith of ...