Baghdad -- The Chaldean Catholic Church welcomed its new church hierarch during a grand spiritual ceremony in the Mar Yawsef Chaldean Cathedral in the Karada district of Baghdad on 29 May, known as 'Golden Friday,' celebrating the first apostolic miracle.
The number of renewable energy projects is increasing rapidly across Turkey. What is striking, however, is that a significant number of these projects in the country's southeast region are being planned and developed around Assyrian and Yezidi villages.
Ankawa, Iraq -- In yet another episode of violations, land seizures, injustice, and the cutting off of livelihoods through indirect means targeting the Assyrian people in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), the Governor of Erbil issued a decision to shut down the Montana Cafe in Ankawa, owned by an Assyrian, after he expelled a Kurdish young man from the premises.
Badibe, Turkey -- The village of Badibe, one of the historic villages of the Tur Abdin region, is witnessing intensive preparations ahead of the opening of its new cultural center, scheduled to take place on 24 May in the presence of religious and social figures, as well as residents from across the region.
Milan -- The "most important responsibility" is to be "the father of all" and to "maintain unity" among bishops, priests, religious and the faithful, to whom "strength" must be imparted to face the many challenges of "a world living in fear". This is what the new Patriarch of the Chaldeans of Baghdad, Paul III Nona, emphasises to AsiaNews.
The ongoing electoral process in Syria's Hasakah Governorate is taking on an intensely crisis-driven dimension, as the developments surrounding the sub-elections for the first session of the "People's Assembly" have turned into a tool for consolidating dominance and reproducing mechanisms of political exclusion in the post-Assad era.