The Armenian Apostolic Church on Saturday commemorates St Apkar (Abgar), a martyr of the church and our first Christian King. According to Armenian tradition, St Abgar was the first Christian king of the 1st century, the son of the Parthian king Arshakunie Arsham. He was also called "senior man" as he was the wisest of all and a genius.
At the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, a temple razed by fire around 612 BCE, has remarkably preserved shrines that were recovered by the Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists on a site excavation this year as part of the Penn Nimrud Project, one of several cultural heritage preservation and protection initiatives of Penn's Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program (IHSP).
President-elect Donald Trump has announced his selection of attorney Alina Habba as his new counselor in the upcoming administration. Her appointment has garnered significant attention due to her Iraqi heritage.
Ankara (AINA) -- On the last Turkish Parlamentary session of the yearthe Assyrian MP George Aslan spoke on behalf of the Democracy Party (formerly Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party), and addressed in a passionate speech the actual developments in Syria while shedding light on the situation of the Christian polpulation in the Middle East in general.
Church leaders will continue to meet members of the new interim Syrian government, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East has said. Its intention is to secure "societal peace for all components of the Syrian people in all regions" and cooperate "with those in charge of the administration of the country for the good of the country and its people".
Local Assyrian-Australian office worker Mikhael Bacchus (32) is once again bracing for years of correcting people who confuse him with Syrians, now that the Middle Eastern nation--whose name coincidentally sounds very similar to the name of his people--is in the news again.
On Wednesday, Nineveh Governor Abdul Qadir Al-Dakhil and Cardinal Louis Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq and worldwide, underscored the importance of ensuring the swift return of Christians to Mosul. Following his meeting with Cardinal Sako, Governor Al-Dakhil told Shafaq News Agency, "Christians are the original inhabitants of Mosul, and their presence is vital.
One of the many Syrians celebrating the fall of the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad is the head of the Assyrian Democratic Organization, Gabriel Moushe Gawrieh. At the same time, Gawrieh, who lives in the northeastern city of Qamishli, is keeping an eye on the rebel group that led the final offensive against Assad and forced the dictator to flee to Moscow earlier this month.
On Monday, the Chaldean Patriarchate in Iraq announced its disassociation from the Council of Christian Sects in Iraq, affirming its commitment to independence and spiritual principles. "Regarding the so-called Council of Christian Sects in Iraq, we know who is behind this council.
The head of a political party and a Christian coalition group in Lebanon is calling on the U.S. and its Western allies to step in and deploy deterrent forces to permanently dismantle Hezbollah. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Ibrahim Mrad, president of the Universal Syriac Union Party and secretary general of the Lebanese Christian Front, said now is the time for the U.S., the U.K.
"We were busy all Thursday discussing the situation in Syria and, at the end of the meeting, we issued a written statement about what is happening in the country," Archbishop Joseph Bali explained to El Español on Friday morning, who is also responsible jacobitafor the media and the secretary of the Siro-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Mor Ignario Efrén II, head of a self-cephaly church once known...
When delving into the study of Christianity in China, one is struck by a particular attitude among Chinese scholars, especially those from mainland China, who often describe Christianity as a "foreign religion." Technically, it is true that Christianity did not originate in China, but the same could be said for Italy or France.
Ankara (AINA) -- On the last Turkish Parlamentary session of the yearthe Assyrian MP George Aslan spoke on behalf of the Democracy Party (formerly Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party), and addressed in a passionate speech the actual developments in Syria while shedding light on the situation of the Christian polpulation in the Middle East in general.
(AINA) -- Reports posted on X/Twitter by Christians in Syria paint a bleak picture for Christians. The Christian Emergency Alliance posted the following: Syria: Today, churches in Syria were instructed not to hold Christmas celebrations, parades, or even display Saint Nicholas. The situation for Syria's Christians is deteriorating rapidly.
(AINA) -- The Assyrian Arts Institute (AAI) is an organization founded by Nora Betyousef Lacey in 2017 and claims to support Assyrian arts. AAI has sponsored a few events since its founding, including an Assyrian women's choir.
(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) -- 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.
The Armenian Apostolic Church on Saturday commemorates St Apkar (Abgar), a martyr of the church and our first Christian King. According to Armenian tradition, St Abgar was the first Christian king of the 1st century, the son of the Parthian king Arshakunie Arsham. He was also called "senior man" as he was the wisest of all and a genius.
Local Assyrian-Australian office worker Mikhael Bacchus (32) is once again bracing for years of correcting people who confuse him with Syrians, now that the Middle Eastern nation--whose name coincidentally sounds very similar to the name of his people--is in the news again.