Senior Australian political leaders, diplomats, policy experts and representatives of the Assyrian community gathered at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday, 1 July 2027 (Assyria Day) for one of the most significant policy discussions ever held in Australia on the future of the Nineveh Plains.
After four decades, the community in the Dutch capital once again has a cultural center, presenting itself as a complementary institution to the existing church congregations.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese inaugurated the hall of St. Joseph Church, which belongs to the Assyrian Church of the East in Sydney, in a sign of the growing importance of the Assyrian-Australian community.
German police have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with a fire that damaged the construction site of the Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Mary in Germany last weekend.
Swedish courts have sentenced a man to life imprisonment over the murder of Assyrian-Swedish rapper Gaboro, whose real name was Ninos Khouri, in a case that shocked both Sweden and the global Assyrian community.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has declined to file hate crime charges in the widely publicized Santana Row assault case involving Assyrian-American defendant Bruneil Henry Chamaki and two co-defendants, despite months of media speculation and public pressure.
Assyrian-Swedish oncologist Robel Malki is drawing attention across Sweden with the release of his new book Den där sjukdomen: Om cancer och allt däromkring (“That Disease: About Cancer and Everything Around It”), a work aimed at breaking the silence and fear surrounding cancer.
The Court of Appeal in Genoa, Italy, has reformed the first-degree sentence for 75-year-old Salvatore Aldobrandi, reducing his penalty from life imprisonment to 14 years. The verdict marks a new chapter in a legal saga that has spanned nearly three decades and two countries.
A landmark youth exchange between the Assyrian Students' Association of Australia (ASA), the Assyrian Cultural & Social Youth Association (ACSYA) and the Assyrischer Jugendverband Mitteleuropa e.V. (AJM) has brought together Assyrian youth from Australia and Germany.
