The fall of the regime in Damascus has also led to a backlash against the Orthodox patriarchate heir to one of the most ...

In 1928, Charles Rufus Morey, chair of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology, proposed the exploration and excavation of the ancient and medieval site of Antioch, located in northern Syria ...

Many of Syria’s Christians feared the day Bashar ... under the authority of the ancient Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch. These Antiochian Orthodox Christians have a small, yet significant ...

The foreign ministers of Germany and France said they wanted to forge a new relationship with Syria and urged a peaceful transition as they visited Damascus on Friday meet its de facto new leader ...

As Christians around the world celebrate Christmas, there is no joy among the ancient Christian community of Syria. There have been Christians there longer than anywhere. Antioch, located just ...

The French and German foreign ministers have met Syria’s new leaders and called for an inclusive transition of power, in the first visit by European Union ministers to Syria since the Assad regime ...

Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of ...

the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch, expressed his hope that a new constitution would be drawn up with the participation of “all parts of the Syrian mosaic”. In Bab Touma, a Christian ...

“We are happy that the previous regime fell, but we have many matters in our minds about our future,” Bishop at the Patriarchate of Antioch in the northwestern Syrian city of Safita, Demetrios Charbak ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Three renowned heads of churches in Syria called for unity on Sunday ... primate of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, and Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch ...

In his first sermon in Damascus since Assad's fall, John X, the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch, expressed his hope that a new constitution would be drawn up with the participation of "all parts ...