Bartella, Iraq -- The Bartella Forum for Culture and Arts hosted a lecture this week on Syriac liturgical hymns at the Syriac Orthodox Cultural Center, highlighting one of the community's oldest and most enduring artistic traditions and its role in preserving cultural identity across the centuries.
Community leaders, politicians, academics and members of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian communities gathered at the Hellenic Club of Canberra on Thursday, July 2, to mark the 111th anniversary of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Genocides.
Brussels -- The European Syriac Union (ESU) calls on members of Belgium's Federal Parliament to support a resolution recognizing the Assyrian Genocide and the Pontic Greek Genocide. Resolution 56K1008 was submitted on 16 June 2026 for deliberation to parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission by MP for Les Engages Michel De Maegd.
Tur Abdin, Turkey -- The Tur Abdin Institute hosted two international scholars this week for discussions centered on Semitic languages and recently discovered Assyrian stone inscriptions, reflecting growing international academic interest in the linguistic and historical heritage of the Tur Abdin region. The visitors were Dr.
Tel Tamr, Syria -- The Christian Education Committee of the Assyrian Church of the East in Syria has launched a new course to teach the Eastern dialect of the Assyrian language in the town of Tel Tamr, in the heart of the Khabur River Valley in Syria, as part of ongoing efforts to preserve the linguistic, cultural, and spiritual heritage of the Assyrian community.
Utrecht, Netherlands -- In recognition of his exceptional talent and artistic contributions to the Dutch city of Utrecht, the Municipality of Utrecht has decided to name one of the city's streets after the late Assyrian artist Rabi Koria, who was originally from the city of Beth Zalin (Qamishli) and was born to Elias and Virgin Koria.
Canberra -- Organized by the Assyrian National Council and the Young Assyrians in Australia, a summit titled The Policy Summit on the Future of the Nineveh Plains was held on Wednesday at the Australian Federal Parliament in Canberra.
Iraq is no longer plagued by a jihadist group, but for Christians, evangelization is almost out of the question. Iraq is not the country it was in 2014, when the Islamic State group threatened Christians and other minorities as it sought to establish a caliphate.
Walking into the ruins of Nimrud, an ancient Assyrian capital in Iraq's Nineveh province, Shafaq News' lens paused to take in what remains of one of the great civilizations in history. To the right stood a winged bull statue, defying the passage of time; ahead lay the throne room of King Ashurnasirpal II, once lined with carved stone slabs recording his battles, building projects, and the foreign...
The dream of unity has long inspired the churches that trace their roots to the ancient Church of the East. Efforts to reach that goal continue, while Christians pray that, in God's time, full unity will one day be realized.
A Presbyterian church in Tehran is set to be seized, after residents in the church compound were ordered to leave their homes and worshippers told to find a different church. The confiscation of St Peter's Evangelical Church in Tehran and eviction of its residents, who belong to Iran's recognised Armenian and Assyrian Christian communities, comes after a state organisation moved to enforce a...
Brussels -- Christian leaders and human rights advocates warned members of the European Parliament that Iraq's ancient Christian communities remain under severe pressure despite the military defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group and urged European institutions to take concrete steps to safeguard one of the world's oldest Christian populations.
Glane, Netherlands (AINA) -- An Assyrian Genocide memorial has been erected at the St. Ephrem Monastery in Glane, Netherlands. This is the 23rd Assyrian Genocide monument in the world. The Assyrian Genocide occurred between 1915 and 1918 during World War One, and was perpetrated by Ottoman Turkey, with the help of Kurds, who were hired as the henchmen of Turkey.
(AINA) -- Josephine Zomayah Attisha is the founder of Community Helping All-Inclusively (CHAI ACS1), an organization founded to support Assyrian community development. Rooted in service to the Assyrian (also known as Chaldean Syriac people), CHAI ACS works to strengthen community institutions, preserve cultural heritage, and support families across the homeland and diaspora.
(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) -- In the realm of International Law, the efficacy of the historical claims of transnational communities does not depend on the moral legitimacy of their narratives, but rather on their rigorous adaptation to prevailing normative categories. The Assyrian cause, backed by a highly mobilized global diaspora, stands at a strategic crossroads of great consequence.
(AINA) -- The security situation in northern Syria has reached a critical stage. What was previously described as allegations is now substantiated by multiple field reports and security assessments confirming the existence of established tunnel networks linking Syrian territory with both Iraq and Turkey.
A small clay tablet no larger than a modern handheld document is offering an extraordinary glimpse into the commercial world of Anatolia nearly 4,000 years ago. Now on display at the Kayseri Archaeology Museum, the cuneiform tablet remained sealed inside its original clay envelope for millennia.
Together with the Tigris, the Euphrates is one of the most historically significant river systems in Western Asia. The way it formed marks a key event in the development of the Fertile Crescent, the arc of fertile land in the Middle East where some of the world's earliest civilizations emerged.