News has reached the Presbyterian Historical Society that the Bancroft Library team at the University of California, Berkeley, has completed the digitization of the original materials that make up the "Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home." traveling exhibit.
At this weekend's Assyrian Food Festival, preparing and sharing food is a way to celebrate Assyrian history and the joy of these ancient cultural traditions. The 8th annual Assyrian Food Festival, a two-day celebration of Assyrian food, music, and heritage hosted by the Assyrian Church of the East, Diocese of the Eastern USA, took place at the Morton Grove Park District on August 22 and 23 from 2...
North Iraq -- In a gesture reaffirming Christian unity, ecumenical cooperation, and the fraternal bonds between Churches, Chaldean Patriarch Mar Paul III Nona visited the historic Syriac Orthodox Mor Mattai Monastery on Mount Maqloub in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Patriarch Nona was accompanied by Chaldean Archbishop of Arba'ilo (Erbil) Mar Bashar Matti Warda.
Between 1914 and 1923, the Ottoman Turks carried out a coordinated campaign of mass killings, deportation and forced starvation of its Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Christian minorities in what more than thirty countries, including the United States, France, Germany and Canada, have formally recognised as genocide. Unfortunately, Australia is not one of them.
An Assyrian-American family recently donated a collection of rare books and historical materials to the Assyrian Cultural Foundation (ACF), including a historic Church of the East Takhsa d'Raza--the Order of the Liturgy--which the family believes may be nearly 400 years old.
Canberra -- On Tuesday, 11 August 2026, delegates of the Joint Justice Initiative (JJI) attended the Parliament of Australia to advocate for the federal recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides of 1915.