Many Christians across Syria were uncertain about their future under insurgent rule, given the radical history of groups like ...

Christian leaders like Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna ... They have a substantial presence in urban areas and major cities like the capital Damascus and ...

COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...

A resurfaced video of Syria's Justice Minister Shadi al-Waisi overeeing the execution of a woman for adultery, raises questions about the country's new regime.

The monks’ republic situated on the peninsula of Mount Athos in the north-western region of Greece was founded in 963 and is home to twenty monasteries with Orthodox monks from ... tradition it ...

Syria's Christian village of Maaloula, located north of Damascus, is a sacred place that has previously ... One of Maaloula's main monuments is the Greek Orthodox Convent of St. Thecla, named after ...

Since medieval times, the Orthodox Church has objected to receiving councils ... does God force us to see what we prefer not to see, like He did with St. Paul on the road to Damascus. Rather, we must ...