Syria's new president has promised to replace the Assad dictatorship with a multireligious society where all faiths are represented. Sunday's terror attack in Damascus shows how much work remains to ...

The bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, last month that killed over two dozen people is an indication that Syria's Islamist-led authorities under President Ahmad al‑Sharaa are enabling ...

He had attempted to bring his family to safety via smuggling routes. ... Before the war, there were approximately 1.5 million Christians in Syria; today, fewer than 300,000 remain.

Christian Syrian refugees, part of a group of 15 family members who arrived from Beirut, ... Nonetheless, Syria's Christians are aware that the regime cannot guarantee their safety forever.

Rebuilding Syria is proving a potentially lethal task, as streets and farmland are seeded with unexploded land mines – with ...

This incident has reportedly prompted many Christian families to leave the town, as no entity is ensuring their safety anymore. Participants pray during a peace walk in Baltimore promoted by the ...

Recent violence in Paris and now Mali has set off a storm of anxious discussion and disagreement about how best to help the Syrian refugees.

Christians in Syria: A Historical Overview. Christianity in Syria dates back to the first century AD, with the Apostle Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus marking a pivotal moment in the faith's ...

In Syria, some Christians aren't decorating their homes or putting up Christmas trees because they fear retaliation from rebels. The Syrian capital, Damascus, is twinkling today. Christmas trees ...

Some American friends are congratulating my family on the “liberation” of Syria by Islamist rebels once linked to Al Qaeda. But I fear that the country in which I grew up as a Christian, and ...

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 ...

2005-07-19 04:00:00 PDT Damascus, Syria-- Seated in his parish office, Father Sarmad Yousef reflected on his hard choices: to disobey his archbishop by remaining in Syria or to return to Iraq ...