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

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

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

“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 ...

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.

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

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 ...