An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria's capital Damascus, carefully passing their thumbs over the ...

A group of Syrian Jews recently visited Damascus for the first time in over 30 years, Reuters reported. Rabbi Joseph Hamra, 77, and his son Henry, 48, visited a synagogue in the Syrian capital and ...

One day Saul was traveling from Jerusalem on the road to Damascus. There, he claims he saw a bright light and heard the voice of Jesus telling him to stop persecuting his followers and join them.

FILE - Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, left, and his son Henry take pictures as they visit the Al-Raqi synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. The Syrian-American Jewish family returned for the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — This Christmas morning in ... parishioners sang Christmas songs in Aramaic — the language that Jesus is believed to have spoken — as well as songs about confronting fear ...

Sameera Thabet was among many residents who fled that night to Damascus. “We were living ... Paintings and mosaics of Jesus and other Christian figures had been damaged and defaced.