A visiting Assyrian delegation from the United States to the Kurdistan Region told Rudaw that they obtained a landmark approval from Duhok authorities to build a monument in Simele to honor victims of the 1933 Simele massacre.
Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako on Tuesday called for rejecting proposed amendments to the law governing the Endowments Office for Christians, Yazidis, and Mandaeans, warning that the changes could undermine the identity and rights of these historic religious communities.
The Kurdish group in control of northeastern Syria, under the name of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, has once again demanded that Assyrian schools in the Gozarto region adopt its curriculum. This latest pressure comes after negotiations between the Kurdish entity and the Syrian Ministry of Education in Damascus failed to reach an agreement.
WASHINGTON -- Radical jihadis and other extremist groups have carried out brutal mass killings and other human rights violations against Syria's religious minorities, prompting calls from religious freedom advocates for the United States to take action. Dr.
Sections of the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek communities across the globe have greeted Benjamin Netanyahu's recent acknowledgment of the genocides of their peoples with jubilation. His words, spoken during an interview with Patrick Bet-David, were invested by sections of the Greek media especially, with the aura of long-sought vindication.
SEERI is not Syriac, but for those who follow the language, it is essentially linked to the language. The St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute -- SEERI -- at the Baker Hills in Kottayam, is the only institute in India studying and researching Syriac, an Eastern Aramaic language, developed in Edessa (southeastern Turkey).