KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus – KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — In the coffee shop at this farming village on the northern Cyprus coast, the conversation jumps from one hardship to the next: a bad rainy season, a ...

KORMAKITIS, Cyprus (AP) — Only about 900 people in the world speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic. The offshoot of Syrian Arabic has been passed on orally over the centuries. Now it is at risk of extinction.

From Maronite villages in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus, EU bishops echoed Pope Leo XIV’s plea to lay down arms in ...

A primary school based in the Maronite village of Kormakitis is set to reopen in 2023, Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou said on Tuesday. The school has been closed since 1998 and the plan to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday reaffirmed the government’s “unwavering support” for Cyprus’ Maronite community during the feast day celebration of Saint Maron at the Maronite Cathedral in ...

Ash dangled precariously from Iosif Skordis' cigarette as he reminisced with fellow villagers in a language on the edge of extinction, one that partly traces its roots to the language Jesus Christ ...