No place was worse hit than Antakya where 90% of the buildings were lost and more than 20,000 people died in the town and the ...

Whenever Sema Genc enters a room, the first place she looks is the ceiling: would it hold up in an earthquake, or would she ...

Many Christians across Syria were uncertain about their future under insurgent rule, given the radical history of groups like HTS and their ties to ISIS and al-Qaeda. Weeks later, the insurgents ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Patriarchs of the Greek Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, and Melkite Greek Catholic Churches of Antioch have jointly sent a congratulatory telegram to Syrian President Ahmad Al-Shara, marking his ...

Damascus, SANA-The participants in the spiritual meeting of the Patriarchs of Antioch and All East in Damascus affirmed their commitment to preserve Syria’s unity and the rights of its people to ...

Damascus, SANA- Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X Yazigi ... become behind us and we can only see the unified Syria.” His Beatitude’s remarks came during the mass ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday announced an agreement with the city of Antioch and its police department, resolving its investigation into racism and other discrimination by officers.