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 ...

Pope Leo XIV urged “an immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip. Not long before, an Israeli strike had hit Gaza’s sole Catholic Church, killing three people who had been sheltering there and injuring ...

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The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Istanbul-based journalist Ruth Michaelson about unrest in Syria amid clashes ...

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously ...

As alarming sectarian violence swept through Syria in the third week of July, Christian communities in the region experienced ...

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) struck Gaza’s sole Catholic Church in a raid on ...

The Jerusalem Patriarchate said the trip was made to show a "powerful expression" of solidarity. The clerics were joined by ...

Church in the southern Syrian province of Sweida, smashed Christian symbols, and set fire to its ceiling and walls.

Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now ...

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar demands Damascus be held accountable for the violence in Suweida.The post Israel urges UN action over atrocities against Druze in Syria appeared first on JNS.org.

Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, addressing the UN Security Council, condemned escalating violence in Syria’s Sweida region and attacks on religious sites, including Greek Orthodox and ...