Iraqi President Nizar Amedi received the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, His Beatitude Ignatius Joseph III Younan, and his accompanying delegation at the Peace Palace in Baghdad on Sunday, 1 November 2026. According to a statement from the Iraqi Presidency, the President emphasised that Iraq's diversity had enriched its social, cultural and national identity.
Assyrian journalism has been more than a means of reporting news and exchanging information. Throughout its history, it has served as a space for preserving language and identity and a platform for promoting cultural and national awareness among the Assyrian people.
Being a non-Muslim in Turkey is extremely difficult. While non-Muslims accounted for around 30 percent of the country's population before 1914, the presence of these ancient peoples, whose roots in this region predate the arrival of the Turks and Muslims, has dwindled to a tiny fraction of the population, as reflected in demographic statistics.
October 31 marks the 16th anniversary of the massacre at the Syriac Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad, one of the deadliest attacks against Christians in Iraq during years of violence and political and security instability.
This is an invitation to explore the Syriac tradition of Christianity. The Syriac communities form one of the three historic traditions of the Church, of which the others are the Greek and the Latin. The Syriac language is a branch of Aramaic, the Semitic language spoken by Jesus and then used in the Syrian Church of the East, which grew in what is now Iraq and eastern Turkey.
According to a report by Christian Solidarity International (CSI), Christians and other minorities are at greater risk of being killed or abducted under the Syrian Transitional Government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa. The transitional government replaced the 54-year-old-dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad when it collapsed in December 2024.