The United States is a beacon for religious freedom. That’s a regrettably rare thing around the world. Pew Research’s 2022 Report on Government Restrictions on Religion showed that restrictions in 198 ...

Because of its religious diversity and bloody history during the civil war, the city is considered a test case for the new ...

Before Christmas Eve, attackers burned a Christmas tree near the Syrian city of Hama. Additionally, some groups moved around ...

Access to Syria for Western journalists was always complicated. Now, journalists are entering the country by the hundreds – ...

Syria’s status as a classic Middle East tourist definition was shredded by civil war. Visitors are now beginning to return, ...

Lebanese Christians are celebrating Mar Maroun this week, a Syrian saint as the country moves into a new age with its first government in years.

German theologian and journalist Matthias Kopp -- spokesman for the German Bishops' Conference and a consultant to the ...

German theologian and journalist Matthias Kopp was in Iraq this week to present his new book, “The Christian Legacy in Iraq.” ...

From genocide in Syria and Iraq to ethnic cleansing in Burma, religious oppression and persecution destroyed countless ...

The specter of an uncontrolled jihadist resurgence is just one of the potential challenges facing Syria as the new government ...

Despite his gunshot wounds, sustained in Sweden's deadliest mass shooting, a man managed to video-call his fiancee to tell ...

Salim Iskef fled Syria - where Islamic State militants had killed his father - for Sweden, only to be gunned down this week ...