Bucharest -- The 14th World Congress of Syriac [modern Assyrian] Studies, also called Symposium Syriacum, opened on Monday at the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, bringing together more than 400 scholars and specialists from 33 countries and 176 universities to examine the history, language, theology, and cultural heritage of one of the world's oldest Christian traditions.
On August 3, 2014, the world awoke to one of the most horrific crimes in modern Iraqi history, when the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization overran the district of Sinjar and its surrounding areas, committing atrocious crimes against the Yezidi community.
Inanna Sarkis, actress, director, and internet star with tens of millions of followers, is trading the feed for the pages with her graphic novel debut, Inanna: The Name She Lost. This story reimagines the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love and war as a woman in modern-day San Francisco with nothing but a name and a rage she can't explain.
Amid growing concern for the survival of Christianity in Iraq, the country's bishops are set to assess a new scheme helping Christian families who fled jihadist terror to return. Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil told Catholic Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the country's bishops will be meeting next month to discuss the government plan aimed at encouraging Christians to come...
He is a Church father whose name rarely appears in catechism classes, whose writings are scarcely known outside academic circles, and yet whose work shaped the way generations of Christians encountered the Gospel. Nearly eighteen centuries after his death, Tatian--the second-century Assyrian Christian thinker and disciple of St.
Christian religious leaders in Iraq responded with skepticism after Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falih al-Zaidi urged Christians living overseas to move back home, saying his government has not tackled the problems that pushed them out in the first place.