Liege, Belgium -- The European Syriac Union (ESU) will hold the fourth edition of its Sayfo exhibition in Liege this month. The exhibition titled Sayfo 1915: Le peuple syriaque, histoire d'un génocide oublié (Sayfo 1915: The Assyrian People -- The Story of a Forgotten Genocide) is scheduled to open this Saturday, 12 September, at the local Church of Sainte-Marie des Anges.
Syria's Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Kabawat said the country's new constitution must guarantee equality before the law for all Syrians and ensure the participation of religious and ethnic groups in political life. She said such provisions would be crucial to rebuilding trust in state institutions and curbing emigration, particularly among Christians.
Damascus, Syria -- Gabriel Mushe, member of Syria's People's Assembly and political official of the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO), has called for legislation recognizing the Assyrian language and safeguarding the cultural and linguistic rights of Syriacs (Arameans-Assyrians-Chaldeans) in Syria.
Rijsen, Netherlands -- The first thing heard on a Sunday morning at the Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Ignatius Nurono is not Dutch. It is Syriac, part of the Aramaic language family. This ancient language rises with the incense, carried through the church in hymns whose words have been sung by generations of Christians long before the community's families ever arrived in the Netherlands.
What the world knows about the Assyrian empire, it mostly knows from kings. The palace reliefs and the royal inscriptions that shaped that picture came out of one raised mound inside a city called Nimrud, where Austen Henry Layard put his first trenches in 1845. Around that mound lies a walled town of about 340 hectares, roughly the ground area of New York's Central Park.
Ankara -- The exclusion of Sabro, an Assyrian newspaper published in Merde (Mardin), from a financial support programme for minority newspapers run by Turkey's Press Advertising Agency (BIK) remains unexplained on legal or administrative grounds.