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Ancient Assyrian church reopens for worship in Turkey
Publication Date: 11/10/2021
Source: Daily Sabah
Assyrians of the southeastern Mardin province, who emigrated to Europe 30 years ago and recently returned to their homeland, restored their 1,700-year-old church and have opened it for worship with a ceremony on Monday.
The İzbırak village in Mardin’s Midyat district, where nearly 100 Assyrian Turkish families once lived, was transformed into a ghost town in 1993 as the community migrated to other European countries. The Assyrians decided to return as peace prevails once again in the region with security forces having completely cleared the area of PKK terrorists. After their return, the families started restoration work on the 1,700-year-old Mor Dimet Church. After the completion of the two-year restoration project, the families can begin to worship there again after almost 30 years.
Transnational mobilities during the Syrian war: an ethnography of rural refugees and Evangelical humanitarians in Mafraq, Jordan
Author: Ann-Christin Birgit Wagner
Publisher/Publication: University of Edinburgh Ph.D. Thesis
American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire
Author: Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher/Publication: Princeton University Press
DOI/ISBN: 9780691168104
Engaging ‘the martyred Church’ The Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East and the Holy See in Ecumenical Dialogue 1994-2012 and the Influence of the Second Vatican Council. Living Stones Yearbook 2012
Author: Kristian Girling
Publisher/Publication: Colin South
For Church or Nation? Islamism, Secular-Nationalism, and the Transformation ofChristian Identities in Palestine
Author: Loren D. Lybarger
Publisher/Publication: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Volume/Issue: 75(4)
DOI/ISBN: 10.1093/jaarel/lfm066
Refugee Camps and the Spatialization of Assyrian Nationalism in Iraq in Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East
Author: Laura Robson
Publisher/Publication: Brill
DOI/ISBN: 10.1163/9789004323285_010
Jailed Christian Converts: The Regime is Destroying Our Churches
Publication Date: 28/10/2021
Source: IranWire
Three jailed Iranian converts to Christianity, Behnam Akhlaghi, Babak Hosseinzadeh and Saheb Fadaei, have denounced “gross violations” of their human rights in an open letter from Evin Prison. The letter, the full text of which was published by HRANA news agency, protests against the deprivation of Persian-speaking Christians’ right to worship as they see fit.
Successor of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Boulos Yazigi appointed in Aleppo, eight years after his mysterious disappearance
Publication Date: 14/10/2021
Source: Agencia fides
The Synod of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, led by Patriarch Yohanna X Yazigi, has appointed Bishop Efrem Maalouli as new metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox archieparchy of Aleppo and Alexandretta. The appointment also acquires importance in light of the fact that the assigned episcopal see had been vacant for more than eight years, following the mysterious disappearance of Boulos Yazigi, the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo who disappeared on April 22, 2013 together with Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, Syrian Orthodox metropolitan in the same Syrian metropolis.
