When Wayne State University honors student Emmalina Matti began filming a short documentary about Detroit's Chaldean American community, she wasn't just gazing into a camera lens. She also got a chance to look through her father's eyes.
The Armenian Genocide, the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and adjoining regions by the Ottoman government between 1914 and 1923, is commemorated on April 24th every year.
In recent weeks there has been much commentary and reporting in the wake of the senseless attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd, Wakeley. The scenes that ensued on the local streets after the attack were regrettable and unnecessary.
(VOA) -- Seven teenagers in Australia have been arrested in a sweeping anti-terrorism operation in the wake of last week's stabbing attack of a bishop in Sydney. New South Wales Deputy Commissioner David Hudson told reporters Wednesday that more than 400 federal, state and local authorities were involved in the operation.
The Armenian, Assyrian and Hellenic communities once again joined their voices to demand Federal parliamentary recognition of the genocides of their ancestors on Sunday, 21 April 2024. The March for Justice from Martin Place to St Andrew's Square (beside Sydney Town Hall) attracted many hundreds of Australians of diverse backgrounds in passionate support of this just cause.
Opening the Snapchat app in this third-floor museum gallery summons a moment of unexpected magic. Soldiers, carved on replicas of panels that once decorated the walls of ancient Assyrian palaces, come to life and send a volley of arrows to rain on their enemies. Royal attendants lead horses by richly colored bridles.
Sydney (Reuters) -- Social media platform X said on Saturday it would challenge in court an order from an Australian regulator demanding the company remove some posts related to the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney. Police charged a boy, 16, with a terrorism offence on Thursday for the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a church in the New South Wales capital on Monday.
Spend a few minutes talking to Oakland senior Mena Hannakachl and you'll likely walk away impressed with what she's been able to accomplish during her time at OU and what she hopes to accomplish in the future. Hannakachl was recently awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Meritorious Achievement Award and will speak at commencement.
When the altar of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean Catholic Church was consecrated earlier this month in Mosul, Iraq, a former parishioner now living in the United States said she was moved to tears.
A new church complex has been built near the ancient city of Ur, in Iraq, in an effort to draw attention to the long history of the country's beleaguered Christian community. The building of the church has been spearheaded by a Chaldean Catholic engineer who was inspired by the words of Pope Francis in an address to faith leaders at Ur, the site believed to be the birthplace of Abraham.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -- A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police said on Friday, as investigations continued into a riot after the knife attack.
Sydney (Reuters) -- An Assyrian church bishop who was stabbed during a service at his church said on Thursday he was recovering quickly, and that he had forgiven his attacker as police ramped up investigation into the riots triggered after the bishop's stabbing.
Fairfield (AINA) -- Assyrian Bishop Mari Emmanuel of Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney was stabbed while live-streaming his sermon. Video shows the yet attacker stabbing the bishop multiple times before he is subdued by parishioners. Screams are heard from the parishioners as the attack unfolds. Another video posted on X shows the Bishop on a stretcher being wheeled to an ambulance.
(AINA) -- The 12th Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week is a series of lectures, exhibits and storytelling by distinguished survivors, scholars, politicians, activists, artists, humanitarians and members of law enforcement.
(AINA) -- On July 12 Iraqi president Abdul Latif Rashid repealed the decree recognizing the appointment of Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as head of the Chaldean Catholic Church and which appointed him to the office of the waqf (وقف), the endowment which oversees all church property. The details of the events leading up to this action are exhaustively covered in this report by MEMRI.
(AINA) -- In early December, Patriarch Awa spoke on the possible reunification of the Assyrian and Chaldean Churches, expressing opposition to any form of "uniatism" in the process. Patriarch Sako responded first on December 31 and then more fully on February 28.
(AINA) -- On February 21, the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq ruled on a set of cases pertaining to the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) electoral law. The Court declared that the 11 parliamentary reserved seats for minorities were unconstitutional. So too was the KRG's single electoral district model.
During the years of World War I 75% (750,000) of the Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire was systematically murdered. That genocide of Assyrians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 is a fact, but it has largely been forgotten by the world.
When Wayne State University honors student Emmalina Matti began filming a short documentary about Detroit's Chaldean American community, she wasn't just gazing into a camera lens. She also got a chance to look through her father's eyes.
Opening the Snapchat app in this third-floor museum gallery summons a moment of unexpected magic. Soldiers, carved on replicas of panels that once decorated the walls of ancient Assyrian palaces, come to life and send a volley of arrows to rain on their enemies. Royal attendants lead horses by richly colored bridles.