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As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced ...
The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...
Local sources have told the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), that 38 Christian homes in the village of ...
A brief opening to shore up progress toward stability in Syria unfortunately coincides with Trump administration decisions to ...
The Archbishop of Homs voiced fear for the future of Syria’s Christians after a sharp rise in tensions in recent days.
It was also the first targeting of the Christian community in Syria since a massacre in 1860, when a conflict broke out between Druze and Maronite Christians under Ottoman rule. The Syrian authorities ...
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) struck Gaza’s sole Catholic Church in a raid on ...
Pope Benedict XVI urged warring parties in Syria on Tuesday to end the 21-month-old civil war. “May peace spring up for the people of Syria, deeply wounded and divided by a conflict which does ...
Last month's deadly church bombing outside Syria's capital is raising fears among the country's minority Christians. Some are ...
Syria's Christians are like the rest of its population, ... Christians made up approximately 10 percent of Syria's population. The ongoing conflict now makes their fate uncertain.
Christians In Syria Face Violence, ... He's traveled back and forth to Syria many times both before and during the conflict. He started by describing what things were like there before the war.
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 ...