In the chaos, journalists have struggled to confirm statistics about fatalities, while waves of social media videos claim to ...

"In recent days, Syria has witnessed a dangerous escalation of violence, brutality, and killing, resulting in attacks on ...

When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

Greece has been deeply alarmed over the renewed violence that broke out in Syria last week, in which over 1,000 people are ...

Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city.

“I go to First Baptist Church of Damascus. The whole church, they lost everything, we’re rebuilding it right now; we have to meet at a middle school. Seeing my whole town just destroyed has ...

When Sunni rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last December, they vowed to form an inclusive Syrian government by March. Sunnis comprise around 75 percent of Syria with the remaining 25 percent made up of ...

With the words “I do so promise, God being my guide and Christ my helper,” the Rev. Jerry Lucas was officially welcomed to Pleasant Shade Missionary Baptist Church during a ...

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades on Feb. 19, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship. In the ...