Jan 28, 2011 FIRST THINGS As you may be aware, several Christian churches in Kirkuk, Mosul, Basra, and Baghdad, as well as throughout the rest of Iraq, cancelled their festivities this past…
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The Pascha 2011 newsletter of the Society is now available. Here is the chairman’s foreword. Dear Members and Friends, A few weeks after the end of the first Gulf War, I was…
The Library of Turfan and its Importance for the Study of the Liturgy of the Church of the East His Grace Mar Awa, Assyrian Bishop of California Further details from Dr Erica Hunter at…
Habbeb Mohammed Hadi Ali Al-Sadr, the Ambassador of Iraq to the Holy See has asked Pope Benedict XVI “to encourage Christians to return to their country with a willing spirit for its…
On Tuesday 24th November, Bishop Antoine Audo SJ, Bishop of Aleppo of the Chaldeans in Syria, will be leading two sessions at Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8. 11.15 – 12.30 –…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 14th July 2009: Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his concern over last weekend’s attacks on eight Christian churches in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq, which left four people…
Catherine Alexander speaks with Father Maximos of Holy Resurrection Romanian Catholic Monastery in Newberry Springs, CA about Eastern Catholic identity.
The Centre of Eastern and Orthodox Christianity at the School Of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, will host its sixth seminar on Saturday April 25th 2009 at the Brunei…
The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity, Christoph Baumer (I B Tauris – Palgrave Macmillan, pp 328, £25) Three scholars well-known in Eastern Church circles recommend this large…
Fr John Salter writes: In 1926 Lady Surma d`bait Mar Shimun issued an appeal on behalf of the Assyrian People: We Assyrians are the last survivors of the ancient and once all-powerful…