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.

In the Triumph of Orthodoxy service on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the clergy and faithful proclaim – with many shouting ...

During a typical week, readers (or podcast listeners) send me emails or messages through various social-media platforms. Often, these people are frustrated or even angry. Most folks are not upset with ...

The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] live in an Islamist country and not be [Sunni] Muslim?” ...

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 ...

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

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

Syrian security forces have battled for a second day to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led government faced ...

Over 330 civilians from Syria's Alawite minority have reportedly been killed in reprisals carried out by troops loyal to the country's transitional government. Germany has called for an end to the ...

Syrian government forces are responding to a series of clashes and ambushes launched by partisans of the deposed Assad regime, the biggest domestic military challenge yet to the former rebel group ...