Sent by Pope Francis, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, on Thursday ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Russian Telegram channel has claimed that Bashar al Assad may have been poisoned, sparking online speculation about the fate of the Syrian dictator after he fled to Moscow following his downfall.