Mothana Butres of Zahle, Lebanon, works on an icon in this undated photo. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy of Mothana Butres.) The handwritten, 600-year-old book of Syriac hymns now inspires much of Butres ...

St. Mary's Syriac Orthodox Church -- located at 1 Industrial Drive in Shrewsbury -- is celebrating 100 years of "unwavering faith and cultural preservation." According to a press release, the church ...

Sunday, June 15 marks a day of commemoration as the genocide of Syriac Christians reaches its 110th anniversary. Undertaken alongside the genocides of Armenian and Greek Christians by the Ottoman ...

A generation ago, the vision of building a new Syriac Christian church in Istanbul would have been a fantasy. One of the oldest branches of the church, Syriac Orthodox Christianity still uses a ...

The head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, His Holiness Mor Ignatius Aphrem II (seen at left speaking with Pope Francis), started his career in New Jersey. (CNS/Paul Haring) A strip mall 15 minutes down ...

Religious officials in Mardin's Tur Abdin area welcome the decision. Tur Abdin, a hilly region mostly occupied by Syriac Christians until the last century, is located in the Midyat district. The ...

In his homily, the patriarch referred to the verse, ‘Look at Him and trust in Him’ inscribed in Syriac over the cross raised behind the altar, telling the faithful: ‘Our eyes are always on the ...

Hundreds of Christian fighters from across Syria have arrived in the majority-Syriac Christian town of Sadad to prevent it falling into the hands of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), the head ...

KOCHI: The faithful and officials of the Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church welcomed Joseph Mor Gregorios, who was anointed as the new Catholicos, the head of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox ...