The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to ...

At least 30 Syrian Christians were murdered on June 22 at Mar Elias Eastern Orthodox Church in the capital of Damascus. Christians have faced extreme social discrimination, but the tragedy marked the ...

The bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, last month that killed over two dozen people is an indication that Syria s Islamist-led authorities under President Ahmad al Sharaa are ...

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 ... "I just want to leave this country. I lived through the crisis, the war, the mortars. I never expected ...

The Melkites, Assyrians and some minority protestant groups comprise Syria's other significant Christian denominations. Historically, the majority of Christians (mainly those affiliated with the ...

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 ...

Syrian and Iraqi Refugee ‘Mega-Crisis’ Is Out of Control The Catholic Church works to lend aid and keep the peace. Peter Jesserer Smith News November 24, 2014 ...

The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...

Open Doors began its work in Syria before civil war broke out in 2011, trying to “support and to strengthen the Christian communities there, some of which are quite historic,” Curry said. As ISIS took ...

Christina (whose last name is withheld for her safety) is a Syrian-Christian refugee now living in Lebanon, where she spoke with the Register in Caritas Lebanon’s St. George clinic in Beirut.