In a joint statement issued March 8, the patriarchs of Syria condemned acts that threaten civil peace and denounced the ...

Between March 6 and 10, government crackdowns on supporters of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime resulted in ...

Hundreds of civilians, including Christians, were "indiscriminately" massacred last Friday (7th March) in north-west Syria, aggravating the existing fear and uncertainty in the country, according to ...

Still, Syrian Christians are worried, wondering if the new government will target them next. The revenge killings mark the worst violence since the December ouster of Assad. Ahmed al-Sharaa, also ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

Parliament Member Nikolaos Papadopoulous was detained and questioned for shattering four works by artist Christophoros ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... that Christ had to endure as he passed through the underworld. At midnight, a priest appears holding a lighted candle ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

Hundreds of civilians, including Christians, were "indiscriminately" massacred last Friday, 7 March, in north-west Syria, ...

Controversy followed after an artist's works were vandalized by a Greek MP, labeling them as blasphemous for distorting Christian icons.

Last year, before he fell ill, Pope Francis told Eastern Orthodox priests visiting the Vatican that he hoped to travel to Turkey to celebrate the creed with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, and ...