The Syriac Orthodox Church tells it’s members to ‘meditate on Christ’s words’: ‘Love your enemies, and pray for those that persecute you.’ ...

The Assyrian Church of the East is among the world ... Catechesis, youth engagement, and the continued use of Aramaic in liturgy are in his view essential to preserving that identity.

This dialect is distinct from the Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects spoken by Assyrian and Chaldean communities in other parts of West Asia. The survival of Western Neo-Aramaic in Maaloula is a testament ...

My grandmother was Assyrian. She hailed from Iraq, spoke modern Aramaic, and prayed like clockwork each morning before preparing breakfast. My grandmother's story seems unremarkable, but to take ...

They are descendants of a powerful Middle Eastern empire and early followers of Christianity whose language is a form of Aramaic ... identify their ancestry as Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac, according ...

The divine procession ls led by Hadad, Mesopotamian god of storms (far right, clutching a trio of lightning bolts); the moon god Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of ...

Each group speaks a modern dialect of Neo-Aramaic, or Sureth. When covering us, the West generalizes us as merely "Christians." But we call ourselves Assyrian. It's our ethnicity. My name is Sarah ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — On Oct. 15, hundreds of Turkey’s Assyrian Syriac Christians gathered ... Syriac Orthodox Christianity still uses a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus and his disciples ...

According to the 2021 Census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 60,000 people identified as being of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic and Chaldean Neo-Aramaic origins, in Australia.

A longer Aramaic inscription on the panel is largely illegible, but appears to include the name Mukın-abūa of Tušhan, the Assyrian official in charge of the region during the reign of the Neo ...

"The wall panel contains a depiction of divine procession with previously unknown elements, with Aramaic writing to describe some of the deities while combining Neo-Assyrian, Aramaean and Syro ...