Brussels -- On the 11th anniversary of the Nineveh Plains Massacre, the European Syriac Union (ESU) issued a statement commemorating the victims of the brutal 2014 attacks by the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) against the Chaldean--Syriac--Assyrian and Yezidi peoples and renewing its call for justice.
No matter where they live, the hearts of the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people remain tied to their ancestral homeland Beth Nahrain. For Ankawa-native Eva Sliwa and her husband, nostalgia drove them to embark on an extraordinary journey, cycling over 4,500 km from Germany to Beth Nahrin in a powerful testament to their roots.
Twelve years after the genocide that uprooted nearly half a million indigenous Christians from Iraq's historic Nineveh Plains and Mosul, Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian leaders are once again calling for formal recognition of the atrocity and urgent international action to safeguard the existence of their people.
A fine arts festival was held Wednesday at the Ainkawa Youth Club in Erbil's Ainkawa district, featuring dozens of local artists and contributors from the Nineveh Plain. Organized by the Syriac Culture Directorate, the event showcased classical paintings and sculptures alongside contemporary art forms, including pyrography on paper and wood, as well as modernist styles.
What if I told you that the core principles driving blockchain technology were actually explored over 5,000 years ago? Not in Silicon Valley boardrooms, but in the dusty archives of ancient Mesopotamia. Sounds unlikely, so let me explain how it worked.
Sydney -- This year's Assyrian Martyrs Day in Australia will be held at the New South Wales Parliament on Wednesday August 6, the Assyrian National Council of Australia (ANCA) and the Young Assyrians announced. Keynote speaker is Dr. Anahit Khosroeva who will deliver a lecture on "Memory and Marginalization: The Assyrian Genocide in Historical and Political Context.
In a vivid display of Syriac Orthodox tradition, the village of Miden in Tur Abdin witnessed a collective ordination ceremony that brought 28 young men into clerical service at the historic Church of St. Jacob. The liturgy was presided over by Metropolitan Mor Timotheos Samuel Aktas, head of the Tur Abdin Archdiocese, and held in conjunction with the Feast of St. Jacob of Serugh.
Archbishop Mor Gregorios Saliba Shamoun was a senior hierarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, notable for decades of leadership and pastoral service. Born in Bartleh in 1932, he entered monastic life early, graduating from the St Ephraim Syrian Orthodox Seminary in Mosul in the 1950s, then was ordained a priest in 1958.
The Druze community in Sweida and the nearby villages in southern Syria is still under an urgent threat of massacre. Since July 13, Bedouins and Arab tribes, along with Syrian and foreign jihadists, reportedly in cooperation with forces loyal to the Sharaa regime, have launched unprovoked but vicious attacks against the Druze community.
Dozens of Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian community members gathered in the village of Dori in the Barwari Bala area of Nohadra to celebrate the annual Nawsardel Festival. The event coincided with a symbolic 1,500-meter mountain climb to reach Mar Qayum Church, one of the oldest churches in the region, built over 1,400 years ago.
Mosul -- In a decision reflecting Iraq's growing commitment to cultural preservation and linguistic diversity, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has officially approved the establishment of a Syriac Language Department at the University of Mosul.
Assyrian Christians in Duhok province trekked around 1,500 meters up a remote mountain on Saturday to pray with joyous spirits at the Mar Qayum Church, one of the oldest in the area. The church, located near the Assyrian village of Dooreh in the region of Barwari Bala, is built in front of a rock and a dam and has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.
(AINA) -- There were three Assyrian empires in BC times. The first was from 2000 BC to 1750 BC; the second was from 1365 BC to 1076 BC; the third and most famous and influential was called the Neo-Assyrian Empire, ruling from 911 BC to 609 BC. The following video from the History Time youtube channel presents the history of the neo-Assyrian empire. ...
(AINA) -- The following report by CBN addresses the issue of "protection" of Assyrians by the Kurdish regional government in north Iraq. ...
(AINA) -- The Assyrian Arts Institute (AAI) is an organization founded by Nora Betyousef Lacey in 2017 and claims to support Assyrian arts. AAI has sponsored a few events since its founding, including an Assyrian women's choir.
(AINA) -- On July 12 Iraqi president Abdul Latif Rashid repealed the decree recognizing the appointment of Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as head of the Chaldean Catholic Church and which appointed him to the office of the waqf (وقف), the endowment which oversees all church property. The details of the events leading up to this action are exhaustively covered in this report by MEMRI.
(AINA) -- 'Syria is free'; thus screamed the Syrians as they celebrated the tumbling down of the criminal regime during a whole week. Thousands, even millions, of Syrians strolled the streets of the entire major cities of Syria. They were from all societal segments, strata, trends, genders, religious beliefs and non-religious ones, convictions, sects, confessions, parties, and orientations.
(AINA) -- The collapse of the Syrian regime has added yet another chapter to the cycle of deep crises that perpetually plague the Middle East. Yet, these devastations increasingly render ancient peoples, burdened by the weight of historical memory, invisible.
What if I told you that the core principles driving blockchain technology were actually explored over 5,000 years ago? Not in Silicon Valley boardrooms, but in the dusty archives of ancient Mesopotamia. Sounds unlikely, so let me explain how it worked.
Perceptions of ancient Mesopotamia -- the birthplace of the world's first civilisations, which emerged more than 4,000 years ago across what is now Iraq -- are dominated by stories of divine kings, their monumental stepped ziggurats, and vast libraries brimming with forgotten knowledge.