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The U.S.-born leader of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East discusses the rapid decline of Christianity ...
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 ...
Assyrians speak Akkadian-influenced Aramaic, a variant of the language ... A screenshot from a live-streamed church service, during which Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was attacked.
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.
ANEE publishes a series of blog posts on decolonization of the ancient Near East, produced in cooperation with Finnish Institute in the Middle East. I am Assyrian. Oh, you are from Syria. No, I am ...
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 ...
Aramaic, a Semitic language related to Hebrew ... from Iraq’s Barwar region who had been described to him as a font of Assyrian folklore. “When we finally met, I said, ‘I heard you know ...