Religious minorities in Syria face persecution under the new Islamist government, highlighting the critical importance of ...

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

As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced ...

Since 2010, Syria’s Christian community has plunged by 90 per cent, from two million, to 250,000 today, with most fleeing to the West. Furthermore, Father Jihad Youssef, superior of Syria’s 6th ...

And across the nearby border in Syria, Christian communities date back centuries. Now Christianity is dying in the Middle East, say church leaders in the region, under threat from militant Islam.

Before the start of Syria’s crisis in 2011, Christians made up 10–12 percent of the country’s 18 million people. Assyrian Christians—an ethnic as well as a religious community that traces its roots to ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Saturday accused Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa of blaming the Druze minority for ...

Israel launched rare strikes in Damascus on Wednesday in a campaign it said was aimed at defending the Druze community after ...

Over 900 people have been killed in Syria's Sweida region as sectarian violence between Druze and Bedouin groups rages on ...

Members of Congress know that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad is the bad guy, but they're increasingly worried about toppling him from power, after Christian organizations have galvanized America ...

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All of Syria’s churches, whether of the larger Orthodox community or Catholic, are facing an imminent existential threat both from the new authorities and general political chaos following the Assad ...