Today, he is the head of the monastery, which is located in Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. As well as Fr. Petzold--now an ordained priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church--the ...

The church for decades has been a place of worship for Assyrians who fled persecution in the Middle East and also has been a ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

Whether due to natural disasters or thanks to the destructive tendencies of mankind, these iconic cultural touchstones no ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

A nationwide ceasefire in Syria, brokered by Russia and Turkey which back opposing sides in the conflict, got off to a shaky start after midnight on Friday (2200 GMT on Thursday) in the latest attempt ...

Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the repose of the souls of the dead is a superfood that has its roots in ancient Greece ... we take the kollyva to ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it was too early to accuse the Syrian government of being responsible for a deadly poison gas attack in Idlib Province and said a proper investigation was ...

While we can say that some denominations attempt to reflect certain aspects of the early church, it is hard to find one that is a perfect match. When we consider the history of denominations, we see ...

According to Fox News, a joint research team from the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology in Israel and Nyack College in New York uncovered the 1,500-year-old church at a site called el-Araj, ...

Churches across the United States will be holding events and ... Thompson Memorial Presbyterian Pastor Stephanie Templin Ashford told The Christian Post that one distinctive feature for this year’s ...

Gnosticism, also from the early centuries of the church, held that special spiritual ... Arius was no ascetic crank hurling anathemas from atop a desert pillar. Arianism claimed thousands of ...