In the Triumph of Orthodoxy service on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the clergy and faithful proclaim – with many shouting – bold statements of faith from the year 787, after decades of persecution.

Terry Mattingly writes: hundreds of ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians, have been killed by Islamist militias in Syria.

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often ...

Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

except when parts are ruled by various Herods Damascus - ancient center of Syria; site of conversion of Saul/Paul (Gal 1:17; 2 Cor 11:32; Acts 9:1-25; 22:5-11) Antioch - 3 rd largest city of Roman ...

Between March 7 and 8, the @Greco_Levantines World Wide, advocating for Greeks in Antiochia, Syria, reported on social ...

They already formed, on the periphery of ancient empires ... it expanded into neighboring provinces such as Palestine and Syria. Following the devastation of the Antonine Plague (165–170 ...

Among the thinkers who contributed to this intense doctrinal effervescence were Ignatius of Antioch and Papias of ... Tatian the Syrian, Irenaeus of Lyon, Clement of Alexandria, Valentinus the ...

In the chaos, journalists have struggled to confirm statistics about fatalities, while waves of social media videos claim to show crucified Christians, Alawites and other members of religious and ...

The land’s ancient Christian communities — the biblical Book of Acts notes that “in Antioch the disciples were for the first time called Christians” — were decimated by the Syrian civil ...