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Villagers from Jinet return from the diaspora to celebrate the feast day of Mor Gewargis
JINET, Turkey — After nearly 40 years of forced displacement, villagers from the village of Jinet have begun returning each spring to their ancestral village to celebrate the feas…
Iran suspends indirect talks with US amid regional escalation
TEHRAN / WASHINGTON, D.C. — Iranian media has reported that negotiations between Iran and the United States have been suspended. US President Donald Trump stated that he had not b…
Three Syriac Maronites killed in drone attack on their car in southern Lebanon
MARJEYOUN, Lebanon – A family of three was killed in their car this morning on the Nabatieh-Khardali road, Lebanon’s National News Agency reports. Dentist James Karam, his s…
US-brokered Israel–Lebanon ceasefire takes effect after three months of war, but fighting persists in southern Lebanon
BEIRUT / TEL AVIV / WASHINGTON, D.C. — Intensive contacts and meetings between Lebanese and Israeli delegations under US sponsorship have produced a breakthrough aimed at halting …
Syriac Union Party seminar calls for constitutional recognition and cultural rights for Syriac people in Syria
BETH ZALIN, Syria — Amid rapid developments unfolding across Syria, particularly in the Gozarto (Jazira) region, the historic homeland of the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) pe…
Monastery of the Martyrs Mar Behnam and Mart Sarah unveils restored murals as symbol of Christian resilience in Nineveh Plains
MOSUL, Iraq — On Sunday morning, Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul Mar Benedictus Younan Hanno consecrated newly restored murals of Mar (Saint) Behnam and his sister, Mart Sarah…
Walid’s Childish Antics
By Hicham Bou Nassif | Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College-California Number…
On the way to Sayfo Remembrance Day … after 111 years, the anguishing pain remains
One-hundred and eleven years ago, more than 500 thousand Syriacs [Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans] in Beth Nahrin [Mesopotamia], were “cleansed” in the 1915 Sayfo Genocide. Subsequen…
Bethnahrin National Council concludes annual conference
BETH NAHRIN — The Bethnahrin National Council (Mawtbo Umthoyo d’Bethnahrin, MUB) convened on 29 May for its annual conference with the participation of members in Iraq, Syria, Leb…
Open letter to the new patriarch of the Chaldean Church
By Hand in Hand Foundation for Ankawa To the new Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, we address this letter to you as representatives of the voice of the people in Iraq’s largest Ch…
