OPENING AND CONSECRATION OF THE MOR YACOUB & MOR BARSAWMO CHURCH IN KAFRO, TUR ABDIN
On Sunday 25 August in the presence of the clergy, Tur Abdin locals and guests from all over Europe and with the service led by Mor Timotheus Samuel Aktaş (bishop…
REMOVAL OF HDP MAYORS
On 19 August, Turkey’s Interior Ministry removed from office the democratically elected metropolitan mayors of Diyarbakir, Mardin and Van without just reason. This unilateral, undemocratic decision by the Interior Ministry…
Simele Massacre
SIMELE 1933: MARTYRS REMEMBRANCE DAY
Every year on August 7 our Syriac (Chaldean-Aramean-Assyrian) people commemorate the Assyrian martyrs of Simele (Duhok province, Iraq). This day reminds us of yet another bloody massacre on the indigenous…
NINIVEH PLAIN AND SHINGAL
Following the taking of the city of Mosul by ISIS in August 2014, the Nineveh Plain and the Shingal region sadly underwent the same fate when, with ISIS in eyesight,…
THE ASSAULT ON THE NININVEH PLAINS AND SHINGAL REGION
On August 2014, following the capture of Mosul city by ISIS, Nineveh Plains and Shingal region faced similar threat and they had been controlled by ISIS following the retreat of…