Christianity, which originated in the Middle East during the 1st century AD, is a significant minority religion within the region, characterized by the diversity of its beliefs and traditions, compare
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Of this photo, the U.S. ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Sr. wrote, "Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces, in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms—massacre, starvation, exhaustion—destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation".
Greek Christians in 1922, fleeing from their homes in Kharput and moving to Trebizond. In the 1910s and 1920s, the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian genocides were perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey.
About 1.5 million Armenians were killed during the Armenian genocide in 1915–1918.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, also known as the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, Antiochian Orthodox Church and legally as the Rūm Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, is
Mariamite Cathedral, Damascus, Syria, headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch since 1342
A 6th-century encaustic icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Egypt, depicting Peter the Apostle
St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral Beirut, Lebanon
Church of Saint Peter in Antioch