MAALOULA, Syria — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a cold Sunday morning. But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world's few places where ...

MAALOULA, Syria (AP) — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a cold Sunday morning. But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world’s few places where ...

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 war ...