“The righteous shall be remembered forever.” Psalm 112:6 ܕܘܼܟܼܪܵܢܵܐ ܠܥܵܠܲܡ ܢܸܗܘܸܐ ܠܙܲܕ̇ܝܼܩܵܐ June 3, 2007 — eighteen years ago today, Fr. Ragheed Aziz Ganni, priest of the Chaldean Diocese of Mosul, was martyred for his faith in Christ, alongside his brother deacons: Wahid Hanna

A movingly spare and somber rendering of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea removing the body of Christ from the Cross for burial, from a 16th c. Syriac (or, better, Armeno-Syriac) volume of paintings executed in Mosul, captioned in Syriac and later in Armenian (Bnf Syriaque 344)

Exquisite little birds and exquisite humans reuters.com/pictures/heali…

Setting up "aid distribution points" and then massacring people who come to obtain food is sincerely one of the most evil things I have ever seen.

What script is this? Under the Arabic heading about maqamat of hariri?

“But we Orthodox: are we worthy of Orthodoxy? Up till the efforts we have made in recent years, what kind of example have our Churches given? We are united in faith and united in the chalice, but we have become strangers to one another, sometimes rivals. And our great tradition,

turns out that the main cause of the insipid boneheadness and brain poisoning of the modern right isn't only due to online slop ingestion but also that for years they've all been running on like three hours of sleep a night

These guys profess to love capitalism and the whole capitalist order but they are utterly ungrateful for, if not utterly ignorant of, the work that the federal state does in ensuring that it does not collapse under the weight of its own contradictions

Imagine a world in which you and some buddies could just hop in a beautiful machine like this when, say, you want to go spend the day up in the mountains, that's the sort of world I want to live in