25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Houses are seen along the mountain as a cross stands over the Greek Orthodox convent Saint Takla on Christmas Eve in Maaloula, some 60 km northern Damascus, Syria, ...
When I spent time in Syria, I was particularly impressed with Maaloula, a village an hour’s drive outside Damascus. Until recently, Maaloula was famous because its inhabitants still spoke a ...
In Maaloula, one of the oldest sanctuaries in Syria, where the Aramaic spoken by Jesus Christ is still a living language, they still remember the attacks launched in 2013 by the Al-Nusra Front, an ...