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Showing posts with label Arabs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arabs. Show all posts
Monday, May 2, 2011
Romania's Arabs Meet with Patriarch Daniel
Patriarch Daniel (Ciobotea) of Bucharest has met with members of Romania's Arabic-speaking minority to discuss the challenges facing the community in Romania. The Patriarchate of Antioch periodically sends a clergyman to celebrate the divine services in Arabic for the community, which has grown significantly in recent years. More (in Romanian) here.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Ethiopian Migrant Workers Return from Middle East
A number of Ethiopian migrant workers deported as political unrest and economic uncertainty sweep through Yemen and the rest of the Middle East have been returned to Ethiopia, many with stories of mistreatment and abuse. More here.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
"Defying Deletion"
An excellent review of a new documentary on the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Iraq's Assyrians can be found here.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Iraqi Christians to Petition for Autonomous Assyrian Province
Leaders of sixteen Iraqi Christian parties have met in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan to prepare a petition to the Iraqi government for the creation of an 
autonomous Assyrian province on the territory of two largely Assyrian districts on the plains of Nineveh in the heart of ancient Assyria in northern Iraq.
Long after their empire ceased to exist Assyrians continued to live in their heartlands on the plains and in the mountains of what today are northern Iraq, western Iran, southeastern Turkey, and northeastern Syria. Along with the Armenians the Assyrians suffered the first modern genocide at the hands of the Turks and the Kurds in the early 1900s during World War I as payback for their support for invading Russian armies, which they had hoped would liberate their homeland from Arab Muslim rule for the first time in over a millennium. Between 500,000 and 750,000 Assyrians were murdered in the Genocide, which eventually forced most into the Diaspora, among them the patriarch of the Church of the East (who now resides in the Chicago area). More information on the national tragedy of the Seyfo, the Assyrian Genocide, can be found here.
More on the petition and the prospects for an Assyrian province can be found here.
Pictured is the memorial to the Assyrian Genocide in Kiev, Ukraine.
autonomous Assyrian province on the territory of two largely Assyrian districts on the plains of Nineveh in the heart of ancient Assyria in northern Iraq.Long after their empire ceased to exist Assyrians continued to live in their heartlands on the plains and in the mountains of what today are northern Iraq, western Iran, southeastern Turkey, and northeastern Syria. Along with the Armenians the Assyrians suffered the first modern genocide at the hands of the Turks and the Kurds in the early 1900s during World War I as payback for their support for invading Russian armies, which they had hoped would liberate their homeland from Arab Muslim rule for the first time in over a millennium. Between 500,000 and 750,000 Assyrians were murdered in the Genocide, which eventually forced most into the Diaspora, among them the patriarch of the Church of the East (who now resides in the Chicago area). More information on the national tragedy of the Seyfo, the Assyrian Genocide, can be found here.
More on the petition and the prospects for an Assyrian province can be found here.
Pictured is the memorial to the Assyrian Genocide in Kiev, Ukraine.
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