The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, or Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, is an Oriental Orthodox Church tracing its origin to Antioch by Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the 1st century.
The New York-based group said militants occupied a SyriacOrthodoxchurch and removed a statue of the Virgin Mary from another church.
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This month the first wedding since what Assad loyalists call the liberation was celebrated in the quarter's first-century SyriacOrthodoxchurch, Umm al-Zennar.