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The United States must press the Syrian Transitional Government to bring the perpetrators of the Saint Elias Church attack to justice, implement robust security measures to protect Christian communities,
A brief opening to shore up progress toward stability in Syria unfortunately coincides with Trump administration decisions to sharply curtail humanitarian and development assistance and to terminate the U.
In Damascus, between airstrikes and geopolitical tensions, lives a group of people akin to “conies in the rocks.” These are Syria’s Christians.
Since the church bombing, some Christians have been afraid to meet for church. A group of Kurdish Christians who are currently living in Aleppo have paused their church services, according to Majeed Kurdi, a US-based Iraqi Kurdish pastor working with Freedom Seekers International to provide aid to that group.
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The Christian Post on MSNChristians face 'increasingly perilous existence' in Syria; church bombing serves as 'brutal reminder'The bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, last month that killed over two dozen people is an indication that Syria s Islamist-led authorities under President Ahmad al Sharaa are
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'We're not safe here anymore' - Syria's Christians fear for future after devastating church attackIt was also the first targeting of the Christian community in Syria since a massacre in 1860 ... "I just want to leave this country. I lived through the crisis, the war, the mortars. I never expected that something would happen to me inside a church ...
More than 13 years of conflict have left over 16 million Syrians in need of humanitarian support. Find out what’s happening in Syria and how you can help.
The Eagles of Antioch is a group of volunteers who stand watch over Christian neighborhoods in Damascus, protecting shrines, icons and churches from vandalism and attacks in post-Assad Syria.
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The Christian Post on MSNUS revokes terror label for Syria’s HTS after it toppled Assad; Christian group decries 'injustice'The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven months after the group overthrew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and
There is anxiety in Syria’s ancient Christian community about what comes next under the rule of the Islamist-led groups who have taken power.
The bishop, along with other Syrian church leaders, are whistling past the graveyard. All of Syria’s churches, whether of the larger Orthodox community or Catholic, are facing an imminent existential threat both from the new authorities and general political chaos following the Assad regime’s collapse.