Syria's revitalized ancient Mar Musa Monastery, near the city of Nebek, has become a modern beacon of hope and resilience in a country marred by conflict, as its eight monks and sisters mainly of ...

A Syrian desert monastery that was once a hub for interfaith dialogue, attracting tens of thousands, has reopened to visitors after more than a decade of war and isolation."We yearn for people to ...

Dall'Oglio and others re-established the monastery in 1991 after earlier restoration work. A view of Mar Musa Monastery in Syria in 2019. (Wikimedia Commons/Tareq Mnadili) Before the 2011 Syrian civil ...

The resources of the powerful Medici family supported Fra Angelico, allowing him to create the stunning murals at the monastery of San Marco.

BOB ABERNETHY: The spiraling violence in Syria has affected all areas of life, including religious life. The Syrian desert monastery Deir Mar Musa, north of Damascus, was once a center of ...

The Islamic State group on Friday demolished a monastery founded more than 1,500 years ago in central Syria, near a town where the extremists abducted dozens of Christians earlier this month ...

Deir Mar Musa, or the Monastery of Moses the Abyssinian, is remote. Clinging to a mountain precipice in west-central Syria, it's reached via a dusty 80km taxi or bus-ride from Damascus; the last ...

ALBAWABA - The removal of murals and inscriptions from previous detention facilities has been denounced by Syrian families and human rights organizations as a willful effort to remove proof of the ...