Botkyrka, Sweden -- Sweden has opened its first elderly-care unit with a Assyrian-language profile, giving members of the country's long-established Assyrian community the opportunity to receive care from staff able to communicate in their mother tongue. The unit at Tornet Care and Nursing Home in Norsborg, in Botkyrka Municipality south of Stockholm, was inaugurated on Thursday, 27 August.
Stockholm -- The history of the ancient civilizations and peoples of Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia), whom the Suroyo (Syriac--Aramean--Assyrian--Chaldean) people today regard as their ancestors, successors and continuation, extends far beyond science, inventions, economics, trade, language, and military affairs.
This August the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli marked a remarkable milestone: 100 years since its official establishment in 1926. Known to Assyrians as Beth Zalin, Qamishli was not an ancient city that gradually expanded over centuries.
In the early 20th century, Assyrian families from the Middle East, Canada and the East Coast settled in Turlock to make new lives for themselves. As they found jobs, worked the land and developed a distinct ethnic identity, they also formed places of worship. One of these places of worship, St. John's Assyrian Presbyterian Church, is celebrating its 100th anniversary Saturday, Aug. 29.
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.
More than 2,700 years ago, someone in ancient Assyria carefully ground and polished a small piece of rock crystal, leaving it with one flat face and another slightly convex. The object, now known as the Nimrud Lens, can focus light and even provide crude magnification -- properties that have led to a much larger and more controversial question: could the Assyrians have experimented with telescopic...
Gothenburg, Sweden -- Members of the Assyrian community and others interested in Assyrian affairs gathered on 9 August 2026 for a ceremony organized by the Gothenburg branch of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa), in cooperation with the Ashur Banipal Club, to mark Assyrian Martyrs' Day and the 93rd anniversary of the Simmele Massacre.
(AINA) -- The historical relationship between the designations Assyria, Syria, and Syriac has long occupied a central place in discussions of Near Eastern history, historical linguistics, and communal identity.
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) -- 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) -- For decades, the world has heard repeated claims that northern Iraq is a region of stability, security, and coexistence. However, many Assyrians living in their ancestral homeland continue to express serious concerns about intimidation, restrictions on their freedoms, and growing pressures that threaten their ability to preserve their identity, voice, and presence in the land of their...
(AINA) -- Referring to Assyrians solely as "Christians" does not accurately represent an indigenous people with a distinct history, culture, language, and national identity. Christianity is an important part of Assyrian heritage and has played a significant role in Assyrian history, but it does not replace, define, or erase the Assyrian identity.
Stockholm -- The history of the ancient civilizations and peoples of Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia), whom the Suroyo (Syriac--Aramean--Assyrian--Chaldean) people today regard as their ancestors, successors and continuation, extends far beyond science, inventions, economics, trade, language, and military affairs.
Alongside those early accounting systems, the Mesopotamians developed the world's first spreadsheets, as well as sophisticated banking systems. They also invented the concept of credit -- and, with it, interest-bearing loans.