Since the church bombing, some Christians have been afraid to meet for church. A group of Kurdish Christians who are ...

The AOC explains: “Each year, the selected Christmas tree is placed on an 80-foot extended trailer and makes whistle stop ...

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More secular-minded Syrians and members of minority communities have been kept on edge by incidents of intolerance - a Christmas tree was torched in the western city of Hama, an attack swiftly ...

With the exception of the tree arson, Christmas in Damascus and Aleppo was celebrated normally this year. Residents said they did not perceive any pressure from the new government during the ...

Roughly 125 miles north of Damascus, in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, hooded figures dressed in black burned the community’s Christmas tree two days before the holiday.

When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over President Bashar Assad and rejoiced at the sudden end of a 14-year civil war ...

Syria witnessed a swift revolution that ended five decades of Assad family rule. Rebels and the Syrian opposition seized control of Damascus in a movement that stunned the world.

Syrian Christians carry crosses and shout slogans in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, December 24, 2024, as they march during a protest after a Christmas tree was set on fire in Hamah city on Sunday [AP ...

On December 24, Christmas Eve, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria, AFP journalists ...

Protests erupted in Damascus early Tuesday after a video circulated online showing a public Christmas tree being set on fire in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, near Hama.