Shar’a, secretary-general of the presidency, and Maher Marwan Idlibi, governor of Damascus, at the Oct. 26 meeting.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The 110th Mar Gregorios Day and 37th Anniversary parish celebrations will begin Oct. 28 at Mar Gregorios Orthodox Syrian Church of India in Sea View. The day marks the ...

(AINA) -- The Antiochian Orthodox church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus was a landmark of al-Thawrah (also known as al-Tabqah). It was an impressive, modern structure with a large yard, surrounded by a ...

Mourners gather around the coffin of a victim of Sunday's suicide bombing at Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church, during a funeral service held at al-Saleeb Church in the al-Qasaa neighborhood of Damascus ...

After three months in captivity, 12 Orthodox nuns and three women from their convent’s orphanage were set free by the Islamist al-Nusra Front. Mother Pelagia Sayaf of the St. Thekla Convent in ...

Homs (Agenzia Fides) – Shots were fired at the cross erected on the façade of the Syriac Orthodox cathedral in the Syrian city of Homs. The sacrilegious and intimidating act was denounced with a ...

Metropolitan Paul Yazigi had no way to know that he was about to vanish into the chaos of the Turkish-Syrian border during the violent rise of the Islamic State. "If we want to be good children to God ...

Kirkuk -- A bomb exploded last night near the St Ephraim Syrian Orthodox Church in Kirkuk, which is just a few hundreds of metres from the Chaldean cathedral, in central part of the city. The device ...