Even though the closures were lifted after just one day due to public outcry, it sent a clear and worrying signal to Christians about growing restrictions on their cultural and social freedoms. On ...

In a statement released on Sunday, 15 February 2026, AMHR said it was "monitoring with grave concern" a series of incidents that it characterized as systematic and provocative, culminating in an ...

The Syrian Ministry of Justice has linked the 2025 Damascus church bombing to IS cells. Discover the latest on Syria's ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. JERUSALEM, Jan. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As violence and instability continue to threaten religious minority ...

Syria has announced an immediate nationwide ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ending nearly two weeks of clashes, even as Christians and other minorities remain concerned ...

Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem, head of the Syriac Orthodox Church. Syria's Christian minority continues to face an uncertain future decades into the country's conflict and political upheaval, according to ...

Syria broke into the top 10 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian for the first time in nearly a decade in Open Doors’ 2026 World Watch List (WWL) as more than 388 million Christians ...

Since even before Syria’s longtime former leader Bashar al-Assad fled the country in December 2024, violent clashes between Druze factions and forces tied to the new government of President Ahmad ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. A once-strong Christian community in Syria has ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

JERUSALEM, Jan. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As violence and instability continue to threaten religious minority communities in Syria, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) ...