The Assyrian Church of the East doesn't have a resident bishop, so Mar Awa was welcomed by the Archbishop of Australia, New ...

Regarding the current government in Syria dominated by former members of Islamist group Hayat Tahri al-Sham, Ishak noted a ...

The shrine in Iraq's northern Nineveh Plains will be the seventh worldwide dedicated to Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians ...

Younger generations are also reclaiming the tradition. "Every stitch carries a memory and a hope," says Erbil craftswoman ...

But in early August 10 years ago, these Muslim raiders were different. On Aug. 6, 2015, the Islamic State took the nearby ...

Reflecting on his internal struggles, Bethkinne spoke of political pressures and factional conflicts that negatively impacted ...

Baghdad -- In an unprecedented move, Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has excluded Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian candidates from the parliamentary track, igniting widespread debate over ...

In 2014, ISIS seized control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and imposed a brutal extremist regime. Christians were presented with four choices: convert to Islam, pay the jizya (a tax imposed on ...

The Arabic letter "n" (inside red circle), signifying "Nasrani" (Christian), on an Assyrian home in Mosul. Brussels -- On the 11th anniversary of the Nineveh Plains Massacre, the European Syriac Union ...

The 'Warka Mask,' a Sumerian artifact from 3100 B.C., was looted from the National Museum of Iraq in the final days of Saddam Hussein's regime. It was later found buried in someone's backyard (Samir ...

Entrance to the 4th century Assyrian Church in Saudi Arabia. (AINA) -- Bordering the Arabian Gulf and containing the towns of Dhahran, Al-Khobar, Dammam, Qatif, Hofuf and Jubail, the Eastern Province ...