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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…