Historic Syrian monastery to reopen following restoration
...news agency Fides. Some of the nuns have already started to return to the Orthodox Monastery of St. Tekla in the historic Christian town of Maaloula, 55km northeast of Syria’s...
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Syria: Christians and Yazidis among 250,000 displaced in Afrin
...of the FSA have also been implicated in the destruction of a fifth-century church in the town of Maaloula, which had been a seat of Christian learning before the war....
‘Christianity in Syria is under threat from forces the West is supporting’
...of the conflict.” He showed a slide of a fifth-century church from the town of Maaloula, which had been a seat of Christian learning before the war. He said the...
Security not only concern for Syrians returning home
...destroyed. A sowing project in Maaloula helps women to grow in their skills as tailors. The products they make will be sold to generate income. (Photo: Open Doors International) In...
‘Coming back’ – a poem scribbled on a church wall in Homs
...restore 40 houses in Homs and in Maaloula. (This is a historic Christian town where Aramaic is still spoken). ‘Hope for the Middle East’ is a seven-year advocacy campaign on...
Syrian militants held for Maaloula nuns’ kidnap
Two Syrians have been charged in Lebanon for taking part in the kidnapping three years ago of nuns from the Syrian historic town of Maaloula, close to the Lebanese border,...
‘Kill the Christians’
...hundreds of thousands of Christians are fleeing Islamic extremists, conflict and persecution. “From the Nineveh Plains in Iraq to the ancient city of Maaloula in Syria, ‘Kill the Christians’ reveals...
Kidnappers release Syrian nuns
A group of nuns kidnapped in Maaloula, Syria, in December were released early Monday, tired but unharmed. “God did not leave us,” Mother Pelagia Sayyaf, superior of the Mar Takla...
UK Parliament is told Christianity is ‘most persecuted religion’
...and Maaloula. MP Sammy Wilson said that in Syria, “50,000 Christians have been cleared from the city of Homs”, while in Sudan two million Christians were killed by the regime...
12 nuns ‘abducted’ as rebels recapture Maaloula
Mar Takla, Maaloula.Richard / Flickr / Creative Commons The Vatican has reported that 12 nuns were abducted as opposition rebels captured Syria’s historically Christian town of Maaloula yesterday (December 2)....