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.
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.