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

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

Syria's Christians are a minority in flux. There are concerns about instability and insecurity in the country alongside demands for accountability, for members of the community who supported the ...

A Syrian Christian man holds up a cross and shouts slogans in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, ... According to 2024 data from the International Christian Concern ...

After his village in Syria came under repeated rocket attacks earlier this year, the 32-year-old Christian barber knew he had to save his wife and two boys, ages 5 and 2.

In October 2015, the European Parliament stated that 700,000 Christians, about 40 percent of Syria's Christian population, have left the country. The prelate expressed concern about the Christians ...

The primary factor of the shrinking Christian presence has been genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire: the Armenian genocide, Greek genocide, and Assyrian genocide followed by mass emigration in ...

ACI MENA, Dec 31, 2024 / 14:30 pm. In the weeks since Syria’s government was overthrown, the Christians of Maaloula, a historic town in western Syria known for its Christian heritage, have been ...

Before the war began in 2011, Syria was home to more than 1.5 million Christians. Today, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church estimates that number has fallen to around 400,000.

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 ...