Joseph Yacoub, a specialist in Eastern Christians, examines Syria’s historical identity, highlighting its neglected Christian ...

Praying for Gaza peace ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Some of the earliest evidence of Christian communities in Jordan is found in spiritually infused artistry dating from the third to the 19th centuries, serving as creative expressions of faith and ...

Mr. Netanyahu and members of his Cabinet claim title to Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, southern Lebanon, and Syria’s ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

After Israel launched its full-scale offensive in Lebanon in September, many fled to the Mediterranean island.

Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience. Indeed, astonishingly in a religion of 613 commandments, there is no Hebrew word that means to obey.

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

The Syriac language is similar to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke ... Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as the state religion in the 4th century. They used the Antiochine ...

If the trail of the real Jesus has gone cold in Bethlehem, it grows much warmer 65 miles north in Galilee, the rolling hill country of northern ... probably from the Aramaic words for oil press.

Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin throughout the programme, plus up to three additional languages chosen from a wide selection including Akkadian, Aramaic ... offered at GCSE with grade ...