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Syrian Christian leaders say they cannot trust the Islamist-led Syrian government of Ahmed al-Sharaa to provide the safety they need after a week of deadly clashes that claimed the lives of 1,000 people in the southern region of Sweida and urged international protection.

The first funeral services for the victims of a jihadi suicide bombing inside a Damascus church were held as Syrian Christians have been left deeply traumatized by the horrific massacre during Sunday's Divine Liturgy on 22 June. At least 25 people were killed and dozens more injured in a shooting spree and bombing inside the packed church.

Christians in Syria are reeling after a suicide bombing struck a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus during a 22 June Divine Liturgy.

St Michael the Archangel Melkite Catholic Cathedral held an interfaith candlelight vigil on 19 March for the Syrians massacred in recent weeks, mostly members of the minority Alawite community who live on the nation’s coastline.

"No one knows the end" of recent deadly violence in Syria, said Maronite Archbishop Antoine Chbair of Latakia and Tartus.

Syria's top Christian leaders have condemned the killing and wounding of hundreds of Alawites, many of them civilians, by security forces and gunmen linked to the country's new Islamist rulers.

The head of the US Catholic bishops' international justice committee is calling on nations to help Syria after the 8 December fall of the Assad dictatorship in a lightning rebel offensive after 13 years of civil war.

The apostolic nuncio to Syria says he hopes the war-torn nation will "move toward reconciliation" and at least "some prosperity" under democratic rule, following former Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster in a lightning offensive by rebel groups.

The seizure of the city of Aleppo by jihadist rebels leaves an uncertain future for some 25,000 Catholics in Syria.

Devastated Christian communities across Turkey and Syria are pleading for help this Easter, with the death toll from February’s earthquake, now over 50,000, continuing to rise as rubble is cleared.

Australian representatives of the two largest Catholic communities in Syria will call on the Government to halt sanctions for earthquake recovery

Implementation of UN resolution would be "courageous" By Courtney Mares Pope Francis applauded the United Nations Security Council on Sunday for its recent resolution calling for...