The new authorities have made a conscious effort to calm the population — yet safety is not the same as stability.

Syria's Christians are a minority in flux. There are concerns about instability and insecurity in the country alongside ...

“We need peace. We want to live in peace.” The Melkite Church is officially affiliated with the Catholic Church but shares the Byzantine rite of many Eastern Orthodox churches. And, as in ...

However, critics objected to what they called its Islamists provisions, which include the requirement that the president be a ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (right) speaks with Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Emeritus ... the separation between the Orthodox and Catholic churches — Patriarch Bartholomew suggested ...

It was signed by the patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox and Melkite Greek Catholic Churches. The reported killings on the Mediterranean coast the heartland of the Alawite religious ...