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Number of Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian families in Basra, Iraq, decreased to 300 families, according to local Chaldean priest
Publication Date: 9/8/2022
Source: Syriac Press
In comments to Rudaw TV, priest of the Chaldean Church in Basra Father Aram Sabah Banu stated that, “More than 5,000 families from the [Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian] people were living in Basra some 60 years ago, but only 300 now remain.”
Christian group demands Turkish authorities answer question about alleged plot to kill pastors
Author: Anugrah Kumar
Publication Date: 18/9/2022
Source: Christian Post
The U.K.-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide has called on the government of Turkey to investigate a claim that the country’s security officials offered to pay an ultranationalist “whatever he wanted” in return for assassinating church leaders.
Last month, an ultranationalist man, identified only as Tolgahan A., confessed to Vedat Serin, a leader of the Salvation Church in the eastern city of Malatya, that members of Turkey’s Gendarmerie Intelligence and Anti-Terror Unit offered him “whatever he wanted” if he killed Serin and two other Christian leaders — former pastor Tim Stone and Pastor Ihsan Özbek, the chair of Kurtuluş Churches Association, CSW said in a statement.
Poor economy, security pushes Hamdaniyah Christians abroad
Author: Hastyar Qadir
Publication Date: 2/8/2022
Source: Rudaw
At least 30 Christian families migrated from Nineveh’s Hamdaniyah in July, due to economic and security reasons, a local official told Rudaw on Tuesday.
“Thirty families migrated from Hamdaniyah in July,” Issam Bahnam, the district’s mayor told Rudaw, adding that the families previously left the area but had returned.
Religious Communities Dissatisfied with Turkey’s New Foundations
Publication Date: 30/8/2022
Source: Persecution
The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople penned a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outlining the dissatisfaction and frustration among the Armenian Christian community over the newly released foundation regulations. In order to manage their work, non-Muslim religious communities must register as a foundation in Turkey.
Half a century later, Assyrians return home in Mardin province
Publication Date: 18/8/2022
Source: Rudaw
Driven by war, violence, and discrimination half a century ago, Assyrians in southeastern Turkey have recently decided to return home to Midyat town to rebuild what they call their ancestors' land using the same original architectural designs.
Located in Mardin province in the Kurdish region of southeastern Turkey (Bakur), the population of Midyat was mainly Assyrians in the past, also referred to as Syriac.
Universal Syriac Union Party President Mrad rejects attempts to impose certain identities on Christians in Lebanon
Publication Date: 26/9/2022
Source: Syriac Press
President of the Universal Syriac Union Party (USUP) in Lebanon Ibrahim Mrad rejected any attempts to impose certain cultural identities on Christians in Lebanon.
1,100-year-old Armenian church in eastern Türkiye holds 10th holy mass since reopening
Author: Mesut Varol and Emre Ilikan
Publication Date: 4/9/2022
Source: Anadolu Agency
A 1,100-year-old Armenian church in Türkiye's eastern Van province hosted its 10th special mass on Sunday since reopening in 2010 after a 95-year hiatus.
Sahak Mashalian, the head of the Armenian Patriarchate in Türkiye, and Father Harutyun Damatian came to the island along with his clergy to conduct the ceremony in the Akdamar Church.
Jerusalem priest calls on Christians to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from Israeli raids
Publication Date: 27/9/2022
Source: Middle East Monitor
Father Manuel Musallam, a Palestinian catholic priest, yesterday called for all Christians in Palestine to mobilise and protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from planned Israeli settler raids in the coming days and weeks.
For the first time in the history of the Turkish Republic, an Armenian becomes Governor of a district
Publication Date: 22/8/2022
Source: Agenzia Fides
His name is Berk Acar and he is 27 years old and is the first Armenian Christian to become governor of a district in the history of the Republic of Turkey. The news, echoed by the Turkish media, is yet another confirmation of the features that characterize the condition of the Armenian community in Erdogan's Turkey and the tenor of its participation in the country's political and institutional dynamics.
Orthodox patriarch warns Biden of Israeli extremist threat to Jerusalem's Christians
Publication Date: 19/7/2022
Source: The New Arab
Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem's Old City are regularly threatened with violence and expulsion by Israeli extremists, warned Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III.
