Warmest congratulations and blessings to the Yazidi sisters and brothers on the occasion of the first of April, the Yazidi New Year 6774.
Yazidi New Year, or “Charshama Sare Sale” , falls on the first Wednesday of April each year according to the Gregorian calendar.

Sayfo (Genocide) 1915 Monuments

The genocide of 1915 known as “Sayfo”(Sword) caused the death of 500.000 Syriac-Assyrian people notably women, children and innocent civilians. Starting with the community leaders and intellectuals, genocide took place in Tur Abdin,Hakkari,Urmia.

Quote from the Epic of Gilgamesh
#mesopotamia #akkad #sumer #gilgamesh

Heartbreaking News: Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari of Sydney, Australia has been stabbed in his church while delivering a sermon.

These are the ruthless attacks endured by Assyrians in the homeland and now in Diaspora.

Dear friends have a blessed Sunday

Syriac Orthodox Church in Jordan .

Traditional Assyrian costume, Nineveh Plains, N-Iraq.
#chaldeans #syriacs #christians

Abgar V the Black of Urhoy was a historical Syriac Aramean ruler of the kingdom of Osroene, holding his capital Urhoy (Edessa). He ruled in from 4 BC to 7 AD and from 13 AD to 50 AD.

Animation Movie about King Abgar in the Syriac (west) language:

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Two American missionaries among Assyrian villagers in Urmia/Persia in 1898.
#assyrians #christians

Dear friends have a blessed Sunday

Syriac Orthodox Monastery, Mardin/Tur Abdin/Turkey.

Mar Awa III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, inaugurates the Assyrian Martyrs Monument in the Church of the Virgin Mary in Toronto, in memory of the victims of the massacres committed against the Assyrians.

The beautiful face of Mesopotamia/Bethnahren
#assyria #syriacs #chaldeans #assyria ns #christians

The holy City of Lalish, N-Iraq
#SaveTheEzidis
The Yazidi religion and Yazidi people came on the world’s spotlight during the ISIS invasion of Iraq on the 3rd of August 2014 as they were forced to flee their villages, escape death, sex-slavery or become stranded on Mount Sinjar.

Christian Syriac Family in Urfa/Urhoy, before 1915.
#assyrians #chaldeans
Until 1923 or 1924, there were 800 Syriac families in Urfa/Urhoy and they migrated to Aleppo, Syria.

My final video from AKITU - The Assyrian-Babylonian New Year 6774/2024.
#akitu
Dear friends of the Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac People, thank you very much for your solidarity and support.
HAPPY AKITU - AKITU BRIKHO!

Assyrians celebrate Babylonian New Year 'Akitu' іn Duhok (Photos)
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Residents of Kurdish controlled northeast Syria celebrate Akitu festival medyanews.net/residents-of-n…