Syria News News Syria » Religion: U.S. bill would hold Syrian officials accountable for abuses against minorities
The bill calls for a report identifying Syrian officials who are suspected of abuses and for consideration of targeted sanctions against them.
News Syria » Religion: Druze demand self determination in largest protest held since deadly clashes in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of people demonstrated in Syria’s southern city of Sweida and elsewhere on Saturday to demand the right to self determination for the Druze minority, the largest protests to ...
News Syria » Religion: Trump must pressure Syria to protect Christians from 'ethno-religious cleansing,' advocate warns
The burial of a 19-year-old who died in the June bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, has come to symbolize the "ethno-religious cleansing" of Syria's Christian indigenous people, says ...
News Syria » Religion: Fringe Israeli settler group is sneaking into Syria to try to claim land for a Jewish outpost
NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their ...
News Syria » Religion: New Syria law expands state regulation of religious affairs
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country’s top Muslim cleric. The ...
News Syria » Religion: Syria’s only female minister follows in footsteps of Jesuit 'mentor' Paolo Dall'Oglio
Syria’s Minister for Labour and Social Affairs tells Vatican News that dialogue between ethnic and religious groups is helping the country rebuild ...
News Syria » Religion: Don’t let the cradle of Christianity become its graveyard
At 87 years old, after decades in the halls of Congress, I have learned that history does not merely repeat itself — it warns us. One of my last speeches in Congress was a warning about the growing ...
News Syria » Religion: Druze religious council submits evidence to UN on genocide, systematic attacks against Syrian Druze
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People stand next to a destroyed tank, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters, Sunni Bedouin tribes and government forces ...
News Syria » Religion: Syrian fragmentation fears abound as militia, religious minorities seek autonomy
As President Ahmed al Sharaa hopes to seize his “opportunity for peace” in Syria, factions within the post-revolution nation threaten to tear it apart before the new era can even begin. From ethnic ...
News Syria » Religion: The path to security for Syria’s minorities goes through equal citizenship
Earlier this month, over 1,100 people were reportedly killed during clashes in southern Syria involving the members of the Druze, a religious minority, the Bedouin, traditionally nomadic Sunni Muslim ...
News Syria » Religion: Religious freedom commission: US cannot ignore northeast Syria
Displaced Syrians sit in the back of a truck loaded with belongings as they flee along the M4 highway in Ariha in the rebel-held northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on June 8. (Photo: Abdulaziz ...
News Syria » Religion: Pope condemns arms sales to Syria, urges religious tolerance in visit to the Middle East
AMMAN, Jordan — On the first day of a whirlwind visit to the Holy Land, Pope Francis spoke three times Saturday against the violence "lacerating" Syria and singled out for criticism those supplying ...