"In recent days, Syria has witnessed a dangerous escalation of violence, brutality, and killing, resulting in attacks on ...

Scores of Christians – priests, mothers, children – were caught up in the violence triggered by a revolt that broke out in ...

In the chaos, journalists have struggled to confirm statistics about fatalities, while waves of social media videos claim to ...

The vast majority of Catholics belong to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. The Greek Orthodox Church ... The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch has been based in Damascus since the 14th century, ...

The pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need issued "an urgent appeal for ... Archbishop Youssef Absi, the Melkite Greek Catholic patriarch of Antioch and All the East, along with John X, the ...

Damascus blamed "individual actions" for ... The decree was signed by the Patriarchs of the Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. The violence occurred in ...

Some observers call recent massacres of Alawites and civilians the worst in Syria's 14-year-old civil conflict ...

Christians and other religious minorities in Syria are sounding the alarm as more than 1,000 people have been killed since ...

Syria’s Christian leaders on Saturday called for an “immediate end” to the violence on the western coast that has left ...

Church primates in Syria condemned “massacres targeting innocent civilians” and prayed for peace after violent unrest in ...

The violent clashes, which erupted Thursday, are some of the deadliest since Syria's conflict began 14 years ago, and marked ...

COMMENTARY: The mostly Christian small towns and villages located only a few miles away from where Alawite Muslims were ...