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US Congress Hosts First Assyrian Martyrs' Day Ceremony
Never Without His Rosary or His Pistol
Introducing Assyrian Medicine: Healthcare Fit for a King
Rally in Sweden Calls for Protection of Christians in Syria
Assyrian Organizations Launch Relief Campaign for People in Syria
Cuneiform Lives on in the Poetry of Assyrian Poet
Turkey Again Denies the Assyrian Genocide
New Wave of Violence Against Syria's Christians
Assyrian Patriarch Sounds Alarm Over Erasing Assyrian Heritage in Iraq
Syrian Church Narrowly Escapes Bombing
European Parliament Adopts Resolution for the Protection of Christian Minorities in Syria
Assyrian-American World War II Veteran Turns 100
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Assyrian Language Department Opens At Nohadra University
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US Congress Hosts First Assyrian Martyrs' Day Ceremony

By Diyar Kurda

Washington -- For the first time, a ceremony commemorating Assyrian Martyrs' Day was held in the United States Congress, honoring victims of the 1933 Simele massacre and calling for full recognition of atrocities committed against the Assyrian people. The event was supported by Congressman Abe Hamadeh and attended by Assyrians and representatives of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Never Without His Rosary or His Pistol

By Yousif Kalian

In a landmark address delivered during the Jubilee of Hope in 2025, Pope Leo XIV turned the world's attention to the Eastern Churches--not only to honor their sacred past but to demand a reckoning with their precarious future. Among his most urgent appeals was a renewed call to preserve and promote the heritage of Eastern Christians living in diaspora.

Introducing Assyrian Medicine: Healthcare Fit for a King

Among the remains of the great Library of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-c. 630 BC), are clay tablets containing an incredible medical handbook. The "Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia" is the world's most standardised, structured and systematised corpus of medical literature prior to Galen. The tablets were broken into fragments during the sack of Nineveh in 612BC.

Rally in Sweden Calls for Protection of Christians in Syria

Örebro, Sweden -- Religious and cultural institutions representing the Syriac (Aramean--Assyrian--Chaldean) community held a protest rally in Örebro, Sweden, denouncing the recent attack on the Mar Elias Greek (Rûm) Orthodox Church in Daramsuq (Damascus), Syria.

Assyrian Organizations Launch Relief Campaign for People in Syria

North and East Syria -- In an escalating humanitarian response to the dire crisis gripping Syria's southern Suwayda province, the Syriac Cross for Relief and Development and the Shlomo Organization have launched a wide-scale civil solidarity campaign under the slogan "We Are All with Suwayda-- Open the Corridors -- Stop the Attacks.

Cuneiform Lives on in the Poetry of Assyrian Poet

MICHIGAN -- In her latest poetry collection "The Tablets: Secrets of the Clay", Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian poet Dunya Mikhail resurrects the world's earliest script--ancient Sumerian cuneiform--transforming it into a living, modern poetic form. Each of the book's ten sections consists of 24 short poems, blending text and visual art in ways that make ancient symbols feel startlingly contemporary.


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