Liege, Belgium -- On 4 October, an event will take place in Liège to commemorate the Sayfo Genocide against the Syriac (Aramean-Assyrian-Chaldean), Armenian and Pontic Greek peoples. The event will feature a documentary exhibition, an academic lecture, and a documentary based on testimonies from survivors and eyewitnesses from 1915.
Amsterdam -- The genocide of Assyrians is now explicitly included in a Dutch history textbook used in secondary education, marking a milestone in a decades-long campaign by Assyrian organizations to bring the history of the 1915 genocide into Dutch classrooms.
The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church told The Pillar Tuesday that a Vatican cardinal is behind a recent papal law allowing Eastern Catholic Church leaders to be deposed, and behind the efforts in his own Church to see him dismissed from his position.
As a Chaldean-Assyrian American born at the start of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq to immigrant parents, politics has always surrounded me. I have the wry amusement of being a member of a target demographic in a swing state (Michigan).
Tel Tammar, Syria -- Wednesday, 23 September 2026, marks 11 years since the execution of three Assyrian men by the Islamic State (ISIS) months after the militant group attacked the Assyrian villages along the Khabur River in northeastern Syria and abducted hundreds of residents (AINA 2015-10-08). The victims were Dr.
Chicago -- The Hellenic American Women's Council Great Lakes Chapter, in collaboration with Hellenic Link--Midwest, will present Greek-Australian historian and author Dr. Themistocles Kritikakos in a special Zoom program on Saturday, September 26, at 8 a.m. PST. Click here to register. Related: The Assyrian Genocide The program will introduce Dr.