Assyrian Christians Archives

Mideast patriarchs urge hope of Resurrection in Easter messages

Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East
Apr 23, 2019

Catholic patriarchs from the Middle East invoked hope in their Easter messages to people suffering from terrorism, wars, displacement and economic hardship.

Christians working with Syrians: U.S. withdrawal puts minorities at risk

Catholic News Service, Church in Asia/Oceania, Church in the Middle East
Dec 21, 2018

Several Mideast-based Christians working on the Syria crisis have joined a growing chorus about U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull some 2,000 American troops from Syria. They say it puts Christians at risk and could force them to flee again, and they want the decision reversed.

Pope, Assyrian patriarch jointly call for end of violence in Middle East

Vatican
Nov 9, 2018

On Friday Pope Francis and Mar Gewargis III of the Assyrian Church of the East joined their voices in solidarity with persecuted Christians, calling for a political solution to bring peace to the Middle East, stopping the exodus of Christians from the region.

Iraqi church leaders say their unity key to saving Christianity

Church, Church in Asia/Oceania
Nov 9, 2018

Faced with the ever-present fear that Christianity will disappear from the Middle East, leaders from both Catholic and Orthodox rites in Iraq have said their unity is key to ensuring that their churches are there to stay.

‘Our people have overcome,’ Syriac Catholic patriarch says in Aleppo

Catholic News Service, Church in Asia/Oceania
Sep 11, 2018

In war-torn Aleppo, Syria, the Syriac Catholic patriarch proclaimed that “the will of life has overcome death; hope and security have overcome despair and chaos. Our people have overcome.”

Syria’s tiny Assyrian community celebrates its survival

Associated Press, Global Church
Apr 2, 2018

Years of war and instability had already been eroding the Assyrian community in Syria, and the IS onslaught was the final blow that nearly finished it. From nearly 20,000 Assyrians in Syria before the war in 2011, there are around 1,000, according to local activists.