A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...

A top Christian religious figure in Damascus on Tuesday said that the minority community, which he called a "key component" ...

The Syrian constitutional declaration ... Islamic Sharia or Fiqh is advanced but we also have excellent church institutions.” He stressed that the Christian minority has “reservations ...

The U.S.-born leader of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East discusses the rapid decline of Christianity ...

On June 1, 2020, law enforcement officers cleared protesters from Lafayette Square near the White House using tear gas and ...

The European Union has announced it is lifting sanctions on Syria to support the civil war-torn country's economic recovery.

Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.

In a statement, Youhanon Mar Diascoros, head of the Church’s media wing, said that claims suggesting that the heads of three Oriental Churches invited the Orthodox Church leadership to Cairo to ...

On the World Day of Eastern Christians, a liturgy was celebrated at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Sunday, May 25, presided ...

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North Africa that ha ...

Last December, after more than a decade of fighting, forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad ousted him from power. Some people in Maaloula, long a center for Christianity in Syria, shared their ...

The Assyrian Church of the East is among the world's most ancient Christian communities, with roots in Mesopotamia. Its ...