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 little over a century ago, in his 1920 encyclical Principi Apostolorum Petro, Pope Benedict XV declared the 4th century poet, theologian, and writer, Saint Ephrem the Syrian, the Deacon of Edessa, ...

Beirut -- From the patriarchate in Beirut, Lebanon, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan made a historic pastoral visit to Turkey, particularly to areas that were the cradle of Syriac ...

Syriac-Aramean Christians, fewer in number than similarly suffering Armenians, assert their Ottoman-era plight deserves separate recognition. In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, evangelicals ...

A few years ago, I was in Paris and bought three books in French. Given my mediocre ability to read that language, it was overly ambitious. One of the books has remained unopened since, a second one ...

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 ...

Introduction -- Account ad 637 -- Chronicle ad 640 -- Letters / Ishoʻyahb III -- Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephrem -- Khuzistan chronicle -- Maronite chronicle -- Syriac life of Maximus the Confessor -- ...

Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a “layered” manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also ...

On June 22, 2025, a suicide bomber entered Saint Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus during a packed evening worship service and unleashed unimaginable carnage. After opening fire on 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 ...