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 ...

Jews were present in Antioch since its founding around 300 BCE ... but the French Mandate that included Syria and Lebanon. “There were 450 Jews here,” Daoud Cemel recalled about his youth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East ... The greater part of its communities are located in Syria and Iraq, where Christians have faced harsh persecutions in recent years.

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 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 ...