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Joumana Mdawar performs at The Cathedral of The Blessed Sacrament on May 30th
A Voice from the Christian East PARC, in collaboration with the ” Christians of the East”, is proud to present the Lebanese religious singer Joumana Mdawar in a celestial concert celebrating the month of Virgin Mary on May 30th at 7:30pm in The Cathedral of The Blessed Sacrament, Downtown Sacramento, California. Open for all –…
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…
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…
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…
Sabro will be based in Mardin’s Midyat district
A new monthly Turkish-Syriac journal, “Sabro” (“Hope”), will hit the shelves this week, marking the first time in the history of the Turkish Republic that a Syriac Christian newspaper will enter circulation. “As Syriacs, we also maintain hopes about the future in Turkey, and thus we named our newspaper ‘Sabro,’” the journal’s chief editor, Tuma…
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,…
Christian communities could disappear from the Middle East, warns PACE
28 January 2011 (Emg) The Assembly called for a Council of Europe strategy to enforce “freedom of religion” – including the freedom to change one’s religion – as a human right. Member states should also promote educational material which addressed anti-Christian stereotypes and bias as well as “Christianophobia” in general. Christian communities could disappear from…