The fall of the regime in Damascus has also led to a backlash against the Orthodox patriarchate heir to one of the most ...

Jews were present in Antioch since its founding around 300 BCE ... but the French Mandate that included Syria and Lebanon. “There were 450 Jews here,” Daoud Cemel recalled about his youth ...

In 1928, Charles Rufus Morey, chair of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology, proposed the exploration and excavation of the ancient and medieval site of Antioch, located in northern Syria ...

Many of Syria’s Christians feared the day Bashar ... under the authority of the ancient Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch. These Antiochian Orthodox Christians have a small, yet significant ...

Figure 17. Excavation photo showing Mosaic Floor with Animals from the Bath of Apolausis, Antioch, Syria, 1938. Antioch Expedition Archives, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, no ...

The goal now is for Syria to once again become a respected ... Barrot as saying as he met with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Greek Orthodox and other Christian leaders in Damascus.

Sent by Pope Francis, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, on Thursday ...

The early Church sought to evangelize in the major cultural centers of the first centuries A.D. These centers were Rome, Antioch (Syria), and Alexandria (Egypt). All the rites in use today evolved ...

Roman, from Antioch, Syria (present-day Antakya, Turkey), ca. AD 400 Stone tesserae, 257.2 cm × 682.3 cm 70.AH.96.1–.5 ...

which assured “respect for the rights of Christians” in Syria. The Patriarchate of Antioch remains in suspense politically and also ecclesiastically, being the only Church that explicitly ...