Ein Patriot verlässt uns

Der ehrenhafte Abschied von Malfono Hanna Gallio

Aus ganz Europa waren mehr als 1000 Trauergäste angereist um den großen Malfono in einer bewegenden Zeremonie die letzte Ehre zu erweisen. Die Syrisch– Orthodoxe Kirche, St. Stephanus, am Nordring war überfüllt. Viele hatten keinen Sitzplatz bekommen, zahlreiche standen und weitere verfolgten die Zeremonie von draußen aus: Weiterlesen

Nuri Kino

The plight of the Iraqi Christians

Amidst the war torn Iraq, in a place where it may be easier to die than to live, overshadowed and virtually ignored, the world is witnessing with horror, yet in utter silence, the systematic religious and ethnic persecution and cleansing of the indigenous Christian Assyrian, also called Chaldean, Syriac population. Weiterlesen

New realese

Assyrian Mor Ephrem Choir CD

Alias Musake was born in 1968 in the city of Hassake. He studied music in the Private Institute of Aleppo and later became a teacher in the Musical Institute of Hassake, where he organised the first choir in the Mor Georges Syriac Orthodox Church in Hassake, ‘The Mor Ephrem Choir’. Weiterlesen

Turkey

Mardin Rendezvous – The second of the ‚inter-religions dialogue‘ meetings

The second of the ‚inter-religions dialogue‘ meetings, after the first one held in Harran, Urfa four years ago, took place in Mardin. The opening of the second meeting, entitled, „Inter-Cultural Dialogue/Mardin Meeting,“ was held in Kasimiyye Madrasah, Mardin and ended with a tour of Mardin city center, Midyat and Nusaybin. The symposium session of the meeting continues today and tomorrow in Istanbul. Weiterlesen