Sometimes the persecution is intense, sometimes not as much. Right now, many Christians are reportedly being killed in Syria, following the downfall of that nation’s long-time dictator.

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Recent sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal region deepened fears among the shrinking Christian minority about their future and prompting church leaders to urge national reconciliation.

Reports of massacres and intercommunal violence in Syria this month have been devastating to Syrians who hope for a future of interreligious peace in the embattled nation. That vision was set back ...

Nowhere in the contemporary world has this led to more layers of contradiction than in Syria, following the fall of Bashar al-Assad. After 13 years of civil war and, in recent years, relatively ...

The Syrian coast in the western part of the country has become a theater for unprecedented unrest since the onset of the Syrian crisis in 2011. This past weekend, at least 745 Alawite civilians ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council has agreed to a statement condemning widespread violence in Syria's coastal region and calling on Syria's interim authorities to ...