a Syrian-American Christian prelate serving as the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus Friday, April 18, 2025. Mills and Stutzman arrived on an unofficial visit organized by a ...

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

While the Catholic Church in Rome has looked to Europe and the Middle East for its leaders for almost 2000 years, on Thursday it chose the first pope from the United States, one with Oklahoma ties.

Born Isaac Thottunkal, he chose the name of Clement of Alexandria as bishop. Major Archbishop since 2007, created cardinal by ...

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During the live broadcast of Pope Francis’ funeral, a lone cardinal in white vestments among the red brigade accompanying the ...

NBC noted that Mills and Stutzman met Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, “a Syrian-American Christian prelate serving as the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus, Syria, on Friday.” ...

Each year on April 24th, the Armenians, Syriac-Assyrians, and Chaldeans commemorate the Ottoman ... 2,493 villages were pillaged, and 456 villages were forced to convert Islam. 649 churches and ...

FREE TO READ] The first non-European pontiff in centuries pioneered change but was not the radical liberal of conservative imaginings ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died at age 88 on Easter ... A scholar and author, he is fluent in Arabic, Syriac, German, French, English, and Italian.

In a letter to American bishops that some commentators ... the pope addresses a crowd near the ruins of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (Al-Tahira-l-Kubra), in Mosul ...