For Christians in Iraq, remaining in their historic homeland increasingly depends not only on security but also on whether younger generations can find meaningful work and build stable lives, according to Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil.
When Babylonian and Median forces captured Nineveh in 612 BC, they brought down the capital of a vast empire. The years before the siege had been difficult too. A stalagmite from northern Iraq now gives researchers a long climate record that points to repeated drought during Assyria's final century. It is one piece of a larger story. The empire faced war, revolt and a succession crisis.
Södertälje, Sweden -- Two Assyrian educators, Helena Malki and Johan Mousa, have been recognized among the teachers honored by Södertälje Municipality for their contributions to education, student development and the creation of supportive school environments.
Liege, Belgium -- On 4 October, an event will take place in Liège to commemorate the Sayfo Genocide against the Syriac (Aramean-Assyrian-Chaldean), Armenian and Pontic Greek peoples. The event will feature a documentary exhibition, an academic lecture, and a documentary based on testimonies from survivors and eyewitnesses from 1915.
Amsterdam -- The genocide of Assyrians is now explicitly included in a Dutch history textbook used in secondary education, marking a milestone in a decades-long campaign by Assyrian organizations to bring the history of the 1915 genocide into Dutch classrooms.
The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church told The Pillar Tuesday that a Vatican cardinal is behind a recent papal law allowing Eastern Catholic Church leaders to be deposed, and behind the efforts in his own Church to see him dismissed from his position.