An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial ...

Easter' is found in English and German but in most other European languages the word for the festival comes from old words ...

Now residents and clergymen hope that Syria’s new leaders will protect them and their efforts to pass down Christian tradition and the Aramaic language. Many people who had fled the town have ...

Now residents and clergymen hope that Syria’s new leaders will protect them and their efforts to pass down Christian tradition and the Aramaic language. Many people who had fled the town have not ...

But he had another agenda: Chicago’s northern suburbs are home to tens of thousands of Assyrians, Aramaic-speaking Christians driven from their Middle Eastern homelands by persecution and war.

MAALOULA, Syria (AP) — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a cold Sunday morning. But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world’s few places where ...

This was regrettable, because ancient Syrian Christians spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus himself. We still have a tendency to ignore Syrian Christians. In recent weeks, there have been reports of ...