LOUAI BESHARA Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public ...

St. Paul was converted while riding on the road to Damascus by a sudden vision of the Risen Christ, who ap peared to him in the form of a blinding light that struck him to the ground. Teresa of ...

SWEIDA, Syria — The road from Damascus to Sweida winds through outcrops ... God that does not require specific prayers or houses of worship. It values philosophy and reasoning over rote worship.

Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades Wednesday, in a synagogue in Damascus's Old City, expressing joy at the long-awaited return to public worship.