Theological advice on how Middle East believers in Jesus can best witness to their faith, keep social peace, and maintain unity.

US waiver temporarily allows for funds to bypass sanctions against the Assad government. Christian charities experience mixed results.

A city essential to the early church, Antakya has been all but reduced to rubble.

Local believers and their Syrian colleagues serve Christians and Muslims alike in cooperative effort at relief aid.

(UPDATED) As death tolls climb and with churches of all denominations destroyed, local believers race to the frontlines of emergency response.

Syriac-Aramean Christians, fewer in number than similarly suffering Armenians, assert their Ottoman-era plight deserves separate recognition.

Study finds new immigrants in about half of hospitable congregations.

Middle Eastern and European evangelicals assess the vastly different continental response and the Bible’s teachings toward the stranger.

Their plight moved a (mostly prayerless) war correspondent to prayer and mourning.

New leader of Middle East Council of Churches says the quality of believers preserves their witness, if not their numbers.