Article: A Syrian monastery lies at the nexus of Islam, Christianity.(WORLD)

Article: Filmed Report about Syria's Monasteries Broadcasted ...
Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA);  October 17, 2009 ;     335 words ... ... SANA) -- A long filmed report about Syria's monasteries scattered around Damascus, the capital of Syria was broadcasted during TV program specialized ... CT1. The report demonstrated on Sydnaia Monastery from inside and outside, the religious ...

Article: Monastery holds festival on spirituality; Annual Icon and ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  July 15, 2006 ;     494 words ... ... who live at St. Isaac of Syria Skete will once again open their monastery to the public for an open ... 30 at the 20-year-old monastery nestled in a timbered valley ... one nun who reside at the monastery live simple, spartan monastic ...

Article: Deir Mar Musa.(ancient monastery)
History Today;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...An ancient monastery in the desert in central Syria, which lay in ... antique desert monastery which boasts ... fresco cycles in Syria. Situated in ... state of the monastery until the 1980s ... from Italy to Syria to meditate as ...

Article: Monastery finds new global purpose; Eastern Orthodox: ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  August 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... St. Isaac of Syria Skete. The ... him to begin a monastery there and a ... visit other monasteries in order to ... business. The monastery grew, and the ... the monks' monastery. News You Can Use St. Isaac of Syria Skete will hold ...

Article: An art sanctuary at Syria's Deir Mar Musa.
Daily News Egypt (Egypt);  November 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... think that for a Christian monastery, Muslim Syria is equally forbidding. But in truth, the monastery draws as many Muslim pilgrims ... spending the afternoon at the monastery, and a newlywed Muslim couple, he from Syria, she from Lebanon, arrive ...

Article: desert; syria, an ancient land.(Travel)
The Saturday Star (South Africa);  July 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... in a tiny stone church at the monastery of St Serge in western Syria, surrounded by Byzantine icons ... conversation with this woman. Syria is astonishing, an open-air ... world history have swept through Syria at one time or another - Alexander ...

Article: SYRIA: GRAND MUFTI INVITES LEBANESE MARONITE CARDINAL TO ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  August 29, 2005 ;     352 words ... ... Antioch and the Orient to visit Syria in order to enhance relations ... stressed the deep relations between Syria and Lebanon. Both sides touched upon the ancient monastery of Marr Marone in Aleppo and ... a regional tourism target in Syria.