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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Eagles of Antioch is a group of volunteers who stand watch over Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, protecting shrines, icons and churches from vandalism and attacks in post-Assad Syria.

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.