Christian Syrians

A bishop of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Kerala said on Wednesday that an "unnecessary propaganda" claiming that the Christian community is persecuted in India has been unleashed internationally by vested interests.

Educationist and social worker Mary Roy, whose legal battle ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women in their ancestral property, died on Thursday, family sources said. She was 89. She died at her home due to age-related ailments, they said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held discussions with representatives of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church in New Delhi in an attempt to resolve the century-old dispute between two Kerala-based Syrian church groups.

From Chennai's Anglo Indian community to the Syrian Christian community in Ernakulam and Kottayam, most families come together to create wonderful goodies for Christmas. And it's more than just plum cake.

While the appam and stew is a traditional breakfast favourite, it's a great option for dinner too. This is one of the many dishes in Kerala cuisine that creates a delicate, yet unique flavour profile with minimal use of ingredients and spices.

The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists' infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries and he separately said he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there.

Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from ISIS, celebrating Christmas for the first time since 2013, their joy tainted with sadness over the desecration of their church.

Secretary of State John Kerry will miss this week's congressional deadline for deciding whether atrocities by the ISIS against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria should be designated genocide, the State Department said on Wednesday.

In 1683, a vast Ottoman army camped outside the gates of Vienna. For centuries thereafter, the siege and final decisive battle that took place would be cast as a defining moment in a clash of civilizations -- that time the forces of Islam were halted at the ramparts of Christendom.

In Kerala's Kottayam district, the bastion of orthodox Syrian Christianity, the Zumoro choir works hard to keep the sacred language of their faith alive through liturgical music.

As military vehicles roll by, Syrian boys and girls gingerly decorate a large Christmas tree in the Christian town of Sadad, at the front lines with the ISIS.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she wanted to "drastically decrease" the number of refugees coming to Germany, signalling a compromise to critics of her open-door policy from within her conservatives on the eve of a party congress.

Turkey today sent back to Russia the body of a pilot killed when his plane was shot down by the Turkish air force for allegedly violating its air space on the Syrian border, reports said.

On the outskirts of the Syrian Christian town of Sadad, children play in front of a cannon fired just hours ago in an ongoing battle against the Islamic State group.

A bishop of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Kerala said on Wednesday that an "unnecessary propaganda" claiming that the Christian community is persecuted in India has been unleashed internationally by vested interests.

Educationist and social worker Mary Roy, whose legal battle ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women in their ancestral property, died on Thursday, family sources said. She was 89. She died at her home due to age-related ailments, they said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held discussions with representatives of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church in New Delhi in an attempt to resolve the century-old dispute between two Kerala-based Syrian church groups.

From Chennai's Anglo Indian community to the Syrian Christian community in Ernakulam and Kottayam, most families come together to create wonderful goodies for Christmas. And it's more than just plum cake.

While the appam and stew is a traditional breakfast favourite, it's a great option for dinner too. This is one of the many dishes in Kerala cuisine that creates a delicate, yet unique flavour profile with minimal use of ingredients and spices.

The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists' infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries and he separately said he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there.

Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from ISIS, celebrating Christmas for the first time since 2013, their joy tainted with sadness over the desecration of their church.

Secretary of State John Kerry will miss this week's congressional deadline for deciding whether atrocities by the ISIS against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria should be designated genocide, the State Department said on Wednesday.

In 1683, a vast Ottoman army camped outside the gates of Vienna. For centuries thereafter, the siege and final decisive battle that took place would be cast as a defining moment in a clash of civilizations -- that time the forces of Islam were halted at the ramparts of Christendom.

In Kerala's Kottayam district, the bastion of orthodox Syrian Christianity, the Zumoro choir works hard to keep the sacred language of their faith alive through liturgical music.

As military vehicles roll by, Syrian boys and girls gingerly decorate a large Christmas tree in the Christian town of Sadad, at the front lines with the ISIS.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday she wanted to "drastically decrease" the number of refugees coming to Germany, signalling a compromise to critics of her open-door policy from within her conservatives on the eve of a party congress.

Turkey today sent back to Russia the body of a pilot killed when his plane was shot down by the Turkish air force for allegedly violating its air space on the Syrian border, reports said.

On the outskirts of the Syrian Christian town of Sadad, children play in front of a cannon fired just hours ago in an ongoing battle against the Islamic State group.