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…
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…
ESU STATEMENT ON THE FIRES IN SEVERAL SYRIAC VILLAGES IN TUR ABDIN (TURKEY) AND DEYRULZAFARAN MONASTERY
After the fires of the last couple of weeks in Northeast Syria and Northern Iraq, recent fires have burned and destroyed (farm)land around the villages Bethzabday and Midin in the…
U.S. OFFERS UP TO $5 MILLION FOR INFORMATION ON KIDNAPPED BISHOPS
The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information on ISIS kidnapping networks or the people responsible for kidnapping…
BOMBING OF ST. MARY CHURCH IN QAMISHLI, SYRIA
On Thursday 11 July 2019 another cowardice bomb attack on a Syriac-Orthodox church was carried out in the city of Qamishli, Al-Hassaka province, northeast Syria. The bomb was planted in…
OFFICIAL OPENING NEW ESU OFFICE HENGELO NETHERLANDS
On 7 July 2019 the European Syriac Union festively opened its new Netherlands office building in Hengelo. ESU Nederland and Stichting Bahro Production will be the main occupants of the…
BETHNAHRIN PATRIOTIC UNION, YEZIDI EXILE COUNCIL OF SINJAR AND ESU VISIT DUTCH MP JOËL VOORDEWIND ON SINJAR & THE NINEVEH PLAIN
The multicultural Nineveh province in northern Iraq houses a mosaic of religious-ethnic minorities: Chaldeans-Syriacs-Assyrians, Yezidis, Shabak, Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen. The province is located about 400 km northwest of Baghdad…
2019 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS: ESU ENDORSES CU/SGP & BÜNDNIS C
The ChristenUnie/SGP and Bündnis C are members of the European Christian Political Movement which is a European partnership of Christian political parties. Together with the other ECPM-members, Bündnis C and…
ESU AT EP: PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE FREEDOM OF PRESS IN TURKEY
On 18 April 2019, the European Christian Political Movement & The European Post hosted a panel discussion in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the freedom of press in Turkey.…
NO-FLY ZONE OVER NORTHEAST SYRIA
We appeal to world leaders and to Christians throughout the world to support us, the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian Christians living in Syria’s North East region, as indigenous people of the Middle East.…