The anniversary comes as Christians worry about the future of Syria following the ouster of longtime president Bashar Assad ...

It was a mournful moment for Christians in Syria. A bell that once summoned residents to worship rang out, but the church was no longer there.The Saint Odisho church was blown up by the Islamic State ...

Christians in northeast Syria this month will mark the 10th anniversary of an attack by the Islamic State group on more than 30 villages.

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

Salim Iskef fled Syria - where Islamic State militants had killed his father - for Sweden, only to be gunned down this week ...

(AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed) UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, right, arrives to visit Syriac Catholic al-Tahira Church as she checks historic sites in Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, ...

“During the Islamic State occupation, I would look at it every morning and see their flag flying on top ... Azoulay said. Christian sites also restored The reconstruction push has also ...

At the stroke of noon on February 15, 1965, Canada’s red and white maple leaf flag was raised for the very first time on Parliament Hill. On the same day in 1996, National Flag of Canada Day was ...

“During the Islamic State occupation, I would look at it every morning and see their flag flying on top,” he recalled ...