Can One Man Hold Syria Together?
The one thing holding Syria together now is Ahmed al-Sharaa, who has taken on the near-impossible job of teaching his people ...
Bethany Muslim community is building ‘a place to call ours’
This Ramadan may be the last one that Masjid Ibrahim’s community in Bethany observes at Christ United Methodist Church in ...
London Review of Books22d
Rob, Kill and Burn
In the summer of 1860, an unprecedented wave of sectarian violence swept across Greater Syria. Druze militias sacked Maronite ... Some years later, he renounced his native church and embraced ...
Indiatimes18d
Syria president calls for unity after reports of mass killings
"We must preserve national unity (and) civil peace as much as possible and, God willing, we will be able to live together in this country," Sharaa said from a mosque in Damascus The Syrian ...
The Repository12d
Masjid Al Rahman mosque in Canton buys 11th Street Church of God building in auction
CANTON - A local mosque made the winning auction bid of $126,500 Saturday to buy the 99-year-old 11th Street Church of God building. The church's board of elders took only a few minutes to approve ...
Christian watch group rises up to protect community amid growing violence in Syria
The Eagles of Antioch is a group of volunteers who stand watch over Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, protecting shrines, ...
The American Conservative17d
The U.S. and Russia Come Together on Syria
More remarkable still is that Washington and Moscow have come together to request Security Council action. The UN organ previously had been an arena of an intense U.S.–Russia rivalry on Syria ...
Hindustan Times18d
Syria church leaders condemn 'massacres targeting innocent civilians'
Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said "532 Alawite civilians were killed in the coastal regions of Syria and the Latakia mountains by security forces and allied ...