A court ruling in Cairo to seize the historical Monastery of St Catherine, evict the monk' community and operate it as a museum has shocked ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...

“Of course we are afraid,” admits the Melkite Greek Catholic priest Fadi Barki in the ancient monastery of ... (one for each rite: Syriac Catholic, Melkite, Armenian Catholic, Chaldean, Maronite, and ...

Christian worshippers attend an Orthodox Easter service at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Virgin Mary in the ... according to the head of Syria’s Mar Mussa monastery. They can be expected to drop ...

Lucy and Iso excitedly woofed as they spotted the Orthodox monk, who heads the monastery’s German shepherd breeding program, coming to take them and 10-week-old Pyrena for their morning walks.

Hundreds of Syriac Orthodox Christians gathered at Mor Gabriel Monastery in Tur Abdin in Mardin (Mêrdîn), southeast Turkey on Saturday to honour Saint Mor Gabriel, a revered figure known for his ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Muslim worshippers at the mosque on Friday said they viewed Chora Church's rededication as an Islamic site to be a national win for Turkey. ISTANBUL (RNS) — Hundreds of ...

In October, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inaugurated a Syriac Orthodox Church, the first new church in modern Turkey’s 100-year history. While the Lausanne Treaty, the founding document of the ...

One of the oldest branches of the church, Syriac Orthodox Christianity still ... over property owned by the Mor Gabriel Syriac monastery, in Turkey’s southeast. In 2011, Turkey seized more ...

but as one of the oldest Syriac Orthodox churches in the country, its history actually goes back decades earlier. Initially founded in 1895 by immigrants fleeing genocide in Turkey, St. Mary’s ...

The source of the Tigris lies in present-day Turkey ... ancient Syriac Orthodox Church, whose origins date back to the dawn of Christianity. We climbed to a remote 4th-Century monastery, Mor ...