The occasion marked the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

Many of us have seen the dramatic changes taking place in Syria since the fall of the former regime on Dec. 6.

Located in the middle of modern-day Syria, around 130 miles northeast of Damascus, Palmyra had prospered since coming under Roman control in the first century A.D. Sitting at the crossroads ...

One day Saul was traveling from Jerusalem on the road to Damascus. There ... Paul traveled some 10,000 miles across the Roman Empire, preaching in cities that were brimming with the poorest ...

A 1,600-year-old virtually intact Roman-era mosaic has been discovered ... of ancient civilisations including the Umayyad mosque in Damascus and the ancient city of Palmyra. But much has been ...