November 2014

Saint Ephrem The Syriac

Born in Nisibis in the early fourth century, and because of the cruel persecution that was raging at that time, he moved to Edessa where he died in June 373. The Hermit of Edessa or the Holy Deacon is revered in the Greek, Russian, Jacobite, Chaldean, Coptic and Armenian churches. Some of those churches celebrate

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Phoenician

phoenicia.org fondationtyr.org L’Elissée Bible and PHOENICIA CODE Envoi de BIBLE & PHOENICIA CODE 2 Temple de Baal à Marseille The Phoenician Orgin of Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons L’inscription phénicienne de Paraiba L’histoire de Monaco Rameaux Pheniciens En pleine Bretagne phénicienne ! L’iNFLUENCB ORIENTALE EN BRETAGNE Un OVNI nommé CHERUBIN en PHENICIE FEU DE BAAL MONACO

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How to Save a Dying Language, Geoffrey Khan is racing to document Aramaic, the language of Jesus, before its native speakers vanish

By Ariel Sabar
Smithsonian magazine, February 2013 It was a sunny morning in May, and I was in a car with a linguist and a tax preparer trolling the suburbs of Chicago for native speakers of Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of Jesus. The linguist, Geoffrey Khan of the University of Cambridge, was nominally in town to

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Kafro

This Is Simply Our Home

February 25, 2013 – In recent years, around 60-100 Syriac Orthodox families have returned from central Europe to Turkey. Encouraged by changes in the political atmosphere, the minority nonetheless faces a host of problems, from the expropriation of land belonging to a monastery, to a ban on special schools and kindergartens, and also a lack

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Moon

The First Assyrian Illustrated Children’s Book: Romil Benyamino’s “ܣܲܗܪܵܐ / SAHRA / MOON”

SACRAMENTO, California USA – September 2009 – Today, many Assyrian families establish their homes in North America, Europe, and Australia where there is little pressure forcing the youth and newer generations to speak their native language in their homes and among friends. Romil Benyamino is a first generation Assyrian-American concerned about this issue, and recently,

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