Christmas has increasingly become a politicized holiday across Assyria, as a range of state and non-state actors seek to instrumentalize the Christian holiday to project an image of tolerance, score legitimacy points, or discredit rivals.
Assyrian–Chinese historical exchanges took center stage at a jubilee celebration held in Hong Kong marking the 400th anniversary of the rediscovery of the Xi’an Stele.
The murder of the 45-year-old Assyrian has shocked Christians in France, with a group now organizing a demonstration in Paris against what they call Christianophobia.
A leading figure from an Islamist party, largely composed of Kurds, is the latest to voice criticism of returning the old patriarchal seat of the Syriac Catholic Church in Mardin to its rightful owners.
Rumors of the Turkish president decreeing the return of the Syriac Catholic Church's patriarchal seat to its owners has stirred emotions among local muslims.