Prior to the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, Christians made up approximately 10 percent of Syria's population and ...

THRISSUR, KERALA: Mar Aprem Metropolitan, who had led the Assyrian Church of the East in India for five decades, died July 7 ...

It was a most remarkable wedding. Vanessa grew up in our United Methodist congregation. Marwan was a native of Damascus and a ...

On June 13th and 14th, an international conference titled ‘1915-2025: 110 Years Since the Assyrian Genocide’ was held in Athens. Many genocide scholars and historians spoke regarding the causes and ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and ...

Last Sunday morning, driving to our Syriac Aramaic Church in Boston — built by three generations from the Iraqi, Lebanese, and Syrian diasporas who escaped war and persecution — my parents and ...

This ancient language has been safeguarded through the Maronite liturgy, which still includes Syriac-Aramaic prayers and hymns. 9. Catholic education — a cornerstone of Lebanon’s development ...

Some 120,000 Christians in Germany speak Aramaic, thought to be the language spoken by Jesus Christ. Efforts are underway to keep the language alive. The Syriac Orthodox Mor Petrus & Paulus ...

One of the oldest branches of the church, Syriac Orthodox Christianity still uses a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus and his disciples, for its liturgy.

It took more than 70 years and tons of volunteer labor to create “the definitive record of the English language”—including an assist from a murderer.

A historical background to describe a community’s roots. At St. Mary’s Syriac Orthodox Church in Shrewsbury, the pursuit of religious freedom very much informs both their past and present.