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

Syria's Christian community is fearful for the future following a wave of violence that left over 1,000 people dead earlier this month, as a watchdog group reports that starvation is being used as ...

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 ...

The BBC's Lina Sinjab speaks to some residents of the Syrian village of Maaloula, who cast doubt on claims that rebel fighters who attacked the town had a sectarian agenda.

A Syrian Christian man holds up a cross and shouts slogans in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, ... while the Palestinian Christian community is increasingly under threat, ...

Eight people dead may seem like a small number, but it is a disaster for a dwindling, rightfully skittish Syrian Christian community. It is a tiny percentage of the several thousand presumed dead.

Syria's Christian community is one of the oldest in the world, going back two millennia. The apostle Paul is said to have been converted on the road to Damascus, while some Christians from the ...

Syria's Christians belong to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, but chased away by the threat of violence some are heading for neighbouring Turkey, where they have been greeted ...

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 ...