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

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 ...

It was also the first targeting of the Christian community in Syria since a massacre in 1860 ... Thousands of Christians were also forced from their homes due to the threat from hardline Islamist and ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that, when security forces discovered the suspects, they found nearly 20 ...

The Syrian civil war has become a humanitarian hell. More than 100,000 are dead, images of a state-sanctioned chemical weapons attack have evoked a global protest, and most Western leaders agree ...

The Damascus-affiliated forces on Tuesday entered the Druze city of Suwayda following days of nascent violence between the community and Bedouin groups. The defense minister announced a ceasefire ...

Syrian authorities on Monday announced arrests over a suicide blast targeting a church blamed on the Islamic State group, as President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed those involved in the "heinous" attack ...

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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 ...

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 ...