They came before dawn, under the cover of darkness. Overpowering and killing three village guards, they took hundreds of captives — men, women and children, from the elderly to the very young. Then ...

Inside the sixth century church in southeastern Turkey, dozens of Assyrian Christian women, men and children in their Sunday best attend a service, one of only a few held in their ancient homeland.

The seizure of portions of the land belonging to the Monastery of Mar Girgis (St. George's Monastery) in the Ba'awera area ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Assyrian Evangelical Church on Monroe Avenue in Turlock is pictured Feb. 7, 2025. (Ken Carlson/kcarlson@modbee.com) A historic ...

Their first private meeting at the Vatican gave the patriarch cause to hope that the ecumenical dialogue between their two Churches would gain momentum, as he revealed in this interview with the ...

Churches across Turkey, which are devoid of their congregants due to continued Christian persecution, are systematically desecrated by the government and many citizens of the country. One of the ...

Concerns are growing that the oldest Protestant church in Iran, and its surrounding buildings, may be demolished, after ...

For years, Refatti’s was one of several Christian congregations — Armenian and Greek Orthodox, Latin Catholics and others — to host the Assyrian community, which has only one existing church in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the Assyrian faithful, there's hope in spring's renewal. For 12 days every March, descendants of this predominantly Christian ...

The building at 5050 Church St. in Skokie was constructed as the Mayer Kaplan Jewish Community Center, but newly approved plans could pave the way for the facility to become a hub for the Assyrian ...

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