Syrian authorities were quick to condemn last month’s suicide attack on the Greek Orthodox Church of Mar Elias, which left 25 ...

During Bashar al-Assad's rule, members of Syria's many religious and ethnic minority communities believed the state protected ...

Revenge attacks against deposed president Assad’s heterodox Alawite sect led local evangelicals to model reconciliation ...

The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks tomorrow will bring a renewed focus -- intensified by the lens of a presidential campaign -- not only on that day's devastation but on the nation's efforts to ...

Syria’s Interior Ministry says the sleeper cell behind a deadly church explosion near Damascus belonged to the Islamic State ...

I am looking at a reproduction of an old engraving of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher. It is in Bat Ye’or’s book “The Dhimmi,” which collects primary documents from history to ...

The Rev. J. Edwin Bacon, rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, had just returned from vacation when he heard about a Florida pastor who was threatening to burn copies of the Koran, Islam’s ...

VATICAN CITY - In the week since his death, praise almost beyond measure has been lavished on Pope John Paul II. But for all his strengths, the talk among cardinals who have gathered in Vatican ...

How often do Muslims pray each day? In what direction do they bow when praying? What is the Taliban? Islam is a "wonderful, complicated" religion, one that many Americans know little about ...

The Catholic Church largely opposed Islam, which resulted in the Crusades, a series of religious wars, said Saeed A. Khan, associate professor of Near Eastern studies at Wayne State University.

It sounds like “Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World” is a book all of us should read.

A Michigan-based Baptist church canceled its anti-Islam 9/11 event on the eve of the anniversary after criticism from lawmakers and Christian scholars alike, according to a news report. Bloomfield ...