Militants robbed and burned down the church during ... where the half-Christian half-Islamic population still speaks a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language MAALOULA /Syria/, September 2.

MAALOULA, Syria (AP) — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a ... continues below this ad Residents of Christian-majority Maaloula, about 40 miles (60 ...

IIMK deputy director and head of the projects for the preservation of Palmyra and early Christian churches in Syria, told TASS on Monday. "Currently, another, the third, joint Russian-Syrian ...

Church leaders ... of the blending of Christian rites with local traditions. While the Syrian Christians still carry the Hindu way of life, they have a bit of ancient Syria in them too.

An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used ...

MAALOULA, Syria (AP) — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a ... Residents of Christian-majority Maaloula, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of ...