July 15 is the feast of Saint Jacob the Great, the “Moses of Mesopotamia”: Assyrian nobleman, ascetic, cave hermit, mystic, itinerant missionary, wonderworker, first Bishop of Nisibis, mentor to Saint Ephrem, and founder of the School of Nisibis—where he died circa 338.
Would someone explain to me why this literal homosexual Hindu keeps getting involved in our politics and religion in the middle east
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Bar Salibi provides clear evidence of the ethnicity of the Syriac Orthodox community.
In his commentary on the Book of Isaiah, he implies that the Church itself is the Assyrians by mentioning its communion with the Coptic Church and the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy:
Mor Saliba, a frail old man, attended Christmas liturgy 2 yrs ago. He was practically begged to do Gospel reading. His eyesight long gone by then and it was obvious he wasn't looking at the book, but he recited the whole section verbatim, his hymnody on point despite weak voice.
Remember when their church was bombed but instead of doing anything about it, the Arab Christian Rūm made a point of vilifying & lying about the Syriac Orthodox Church, including insulting the Patriarch for praying for the victims and visiting the wounded at the hospital