During his visit to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV met several leaders of Christian communities and worked to promote ...

By Ramazan Kılınç, Professor of Political Science, Kennesaw State University On his visit to Turkey and Lebanon between Nov.

In the Vatican Apostolic Library rests one of its most treasured possessions: the “Gospel of Qaraqosh,” a richly illuminated Syriac manuscript dating back to the 13th century. Catalogued as “Vat. Syr.

The Syriac Orthodox Church has denounced the Syrian Democratic Forces for shutting down Christian schools in northeastern Syria, insisting that they will only teach the official internationally ...

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 ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and ...

AhlulBayt News Agency: Éléonore Cellard is a French scholar and expert on manuscript copies of the Quran. In her opinion, the Arabic language and literature are linked to the text, concepts and ...

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The events that led to the collapse of the Byzantine Empire are commonly referred to as “the Islamic conquests.” However, this raises several questions: Were these conquerors truly Muslims? Were they ...

"Familiar Strangers" is the title of a series that reviews the careers and lives of foreign writers and researchers interested in Iranian culture and literature. The first issue of this series is ...

Salwan Momika, 38, was not the first person to have burnt the Quran in Sweden. However, the Iraqi refugee's Quran burnings were the event that, in the summer of 2023, set the Scandinavian kingdom's ...