SYRIAC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ANTIOCH. The Syriac Orthodox Church and its dependency in India, along with the Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopian, Malankara, and Eritrean Orthodox Churches, make up a communion now called Oriental Orthodox, erroneously called...

The Syriac Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Middle East with members spread throughout the world. It is one of the five ecclesiastical bodies that composed the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church before the...

The membership of Orthodox churches worldwide has been increasing, due primarily to the fall of communism in Eastern European countries. Orthodox membership is believed to be somewhere between 200 million and 250 million. The Russian Orthodox Church has the largest single-church membership. The...

The Oriental Orthodox churches date back to early Christianity and are strongly founded in biblical theology while influenced heavily by Eastern spirituality and mysticism. The isolation created by political regimes has made many of these churches insular but they are now trying to renew...

Sweden, which has welcomed far more Iraqi refugees than has the U.S. or the rest of Europe, said Friday that it is tightening its asylum rules and will forcibly deport Iraqis who are denied refuge.The announcement marked an abrupt change in the relatively lax rules...