Through prayer and protest, believers struggle to interpret the promises of newly ascendant Islamist leadership.

Of the approximately 250,000 Christians who lived in Aleppo before 2011, local Christian organisations tell The Independent only 20,000 remain. All appear happy to see Assad go. But amid the ...

Christians in Syria continue to seek more concrete guarantees, although opinions differ on what form these guarantees should ...

Christians celebrate Christmas at the Catholic Church as the country began to return to normal after the fall of the Baath regime in Aleppo, Syria on December 24, 2024. As Syria begins to rebuild ...

As Syria navigates a transitional phase, questions abound regarding the Church’s role in shaping the new Syrian nation. Has ...

"All or nearly all the bishops present had the opportunity to speak, sharing their concerns and the fears of the Syrian ...

The Christian family decorated a small Christmas ... to avoid the oppression of the Assad regime. - 'Liberation of Aleppo was a great surprise' The day Aleppo was liberated – just a few weeks ...

In this article, I address declining Christian populations in other key biblical locations and explore the reasons for such ...

TEHRAN - The war in Syria has wrought enormous suffering upon the country's varied communities, and with the shifts in the ...

However, Christians still faced significant repression and restrictions,” a Syrian Christian from Aleppo tells the Sun. He explains that the Christian community was denied the right to education in ...

When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis ...

For the first time since the stunning overthrow of Bashar al-Assad two weeks ago, Shoukri, a Christian man in Aleppo, is tentatively reopening his shop. This street, in the Christian heartland of ...