Syria: Today, churches in Syria were instructed not to hold Christmas celebrations, parades, or even display Saint Nicholas. The situation for Syria's Christians is deteriorating rapidly.
On Monday, 9 December, the leaders of all the Churches and ecclesial communities present in Aleppo met for the second time with representatives of the armed groups that have taken control of the ...
Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II. Kochi -- Patriarch of Antioch and the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, Ignatius Aphrem II, who is on an apostolic visit to Kerala, urged the faithful to pray for Syria ...
Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose project had ...