Sometime in the 8th century C.E., the Christian community that had been living for hundreds of years on Sir Bani Yas, an island in the Arabian Gulf, packed up and walked away. At a time when relations ...

Archaeologists working on a small island in the Persian Gulf have discovered an artifact attesting a Christian monastic presence on the island some 1400 years ago. The site is located on Sir Bani Yas, ...

Christianity is thought to have reached the Gulf as early as the 5th century, but for many years knowledge of its presence was mostly restricted to ancient texts. That changed in 1992 when the remains ...

The first Patriarch in history to visit the U. S. docked in Manhattan last week, settled at the Gramercy Park Hotel. His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun, 119th Patriarch of Assyria and head of the Church ...

(We publish below the presentation by the Director of Fides at the 2024 Xi'an International Jingjiao Forum, a Conference dedicated to the Syriac Church of the East (Jingjiao in Chinese) held from 5 to ...

Located in Samahij, Muharraq, Kingdom of Bahrain, the discovery provides the first material evidence of this ancient community. While Christianity is not predominantly associated with the Gulf states ...

Manama, July 21 (BNA): Bahraini and British archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be one of the oldest Christian structures in the Arabian Gulf. Located in Samahij, Muharraq, Kingdom of ...

The building survived as it had a later mosque built on top of it. (University of Exeter) Archaeologists from the University of Exeter, in collaboration with the Bahrain Authority for Culture and ...

SAMAHIJ, BAHRAIN—According to a statement released by the University of Exeter, a Christian building occupied between the mid-fourth and mid-eighth centuries A.D. has been uncovered in Bahrain. A ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the first physical evidence of a 'long-lost' Christian community in the Middle East. They have discovered what they believe was a palace belonging to the Bishop dating ...