Mourners carry crosses and chant slogans during the funeral procession for victims of Sunday's suicide bombing at Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church, outside al-Saleeb Church in the al-Qasaa neighborhood ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — In churches across long-stifled Syria, Christians marked the first Sunday services since the collapse of Bashar Assad ‘s government in an air of transformation. Some were in tears.

In the western Syrian enclave of Wadi al-Nasara, or Valley of the Christians, the sound of church bells rang through the streets and people put up Christmas trees this week. So far, life for people in ...

With the stunning change of leadership in Syria and the end of a 50-year reign of the Assad regime, the significance of religious history in Syria shouldn't be overlooked. Most Syrians are now Muslim, ...

MAALOULA, Syria (AP) — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a cold Sunday morning. But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world's few places where ...

The Greek-Catholic archbishop of Homs, Jean-Abdo Arbach, condemned the massacres of civilians that occurred in Syria last weekend — which left at least 1,000 dead — and urged Christians to maintain ...

In commemoration of Christ's birth, millions of Christians have made a pilgrimage to the "Holy Land" throughout the years. This last Christmas season, of course, was different, with the war raging in ...

Over the past few decades, hundreds of thousands of Christians have left parts of the Middle East for good, driven by wars ...

“See, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. Her towns will be deserted forever.” That’s a prophetic passage from the Biblical book of Isaiah, chapter 17, and now some ...

KOBANI, Syria (Reuters) - A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months, and where the tide turned against the ...

On June 22, 2025, a suicide bomber entered Saint Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus during a packed evening worship service and unleashed unimaginable carnage. After opening fire on the ...