The service, led by Syriac Metropolitan of Mardin and Diyarbakır Saliba Özmen and Chief Priest Gabriel Akyüz, brought ...

"In addition to Christian countries worldwide, Christmas Day is accepted as a public holiday in countries where the majority ...

Alqoshi emphasized that the Christian-inhabited areas of the Nineveh Plains are effectively under the control of armed groups ...

The work begins by re-examining Iran's earliest connection to Christianity, emphasizing the role of the Magi--widely ...

Today, Iran is home to an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 Christians, according to unofficial figures, who live and practice ...

In Syria, church authorities in Holeb announced the suspension of activities and public events held at the "Christmas Village ...

According to church officials, Christmas Eve rituals are held on Dec. 24, while Dec. 25 marks the official day of celebration ...

In his remarks, Efstathiou highlighted the shared suffering of Assyrians in 1915 alongside Armenians and Pontic Greeks, ...

In the late eighth century BC, Ekron was controlled by Judean King Hezekiah, and then later dominated the trade of olive oil ...

Lebanon was majority-Christian starting from the first century (when Christianity was introduced by figures such as St. Peter ...

Here, where prayer once rose in many languages, Christmas was never a fleeting ritual. It became a memory layered with faith, ...

Today, the bulk of the relics of St Nicholas rests in Bari in Italy, though fragments of his bones are kept in churches ...