Professor, Podcaster, Peace-maker. Perpetual learner, Purveyor of Polyglot Pedagogy, Precious Pugilist. Dean at https://xitter.cf/t.co/rY7fXM0bgl
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Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
كنت أذهب للأردن فالتسعينات للصيد بالصقور أو بالبنادق وذلك حسب موسم الطيور المهاجرة..
كانوا النشاما يرافقوني في رحلاتي وهم من بدو الأردن..
وكان أحدهم كبيراً فالسن.. يلبس كندورة صوف وعقال.. سوالفه سوالف رجال.. يعد القصيد ويذبح ويصلخ ويطبخ ويقرب الجميع عالأكل ويقول: سمّو بسم الله على كرامة الشيخ سالم..
كان قمة في الأخلاق والبداوة والسنع..
وبعد ثلاث أيام ونحن في براري الأردن أخبروني بأنه مسيحي 🙄
ضربت فيوزات مخي🤦
ولم أتخيل بأنه ليس بمسلم وهو بكل هذه الصفات البدوية الإسلامية..
انصدمت لحبي وتقديري له من بد كل المرافقين..
وكعادته هو من يشب الضو لتبدأ سمرتنا ونتسامر بسوالفه الطيبة..
فقلت سأسئله عن سبب عدم دخولهم للإسلام ولتبدأ السمرة بمحتوى جديد..
مختصر جوابه :
نحن العرب المسيحيين أأصل من العرب المسلمين في المنطقة..
وأقدم من الإسلام، وأغلب المسلمين كانوا مسيحيين قبل أن يدخلوا دين الإسلام..
حافظنا على ديننا وعاداتنا وعشنا معكم بسلام عالحلوه والمره.
سوّد الله وجه الإرهاب والارهابيين وتعازينا ل #الأردن مسلميها ومسيحييها ولا أراكم مكروه
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
Türkiye’nin Süryanice haritası.
Antik ve modern dönem Süryanice kaynaklardan derlenen şehir adlarıyla 🔻
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
Turkey is a Trojan horse but with a giant billboard over top saying Trojan horse, and people still don’t believe it
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
سورية: شهدت بازيليك دير سمعان (القديس سمعان) في حلب أول حجّ مسيحي إليها منذ 15 عاماً.
وأُقيمت المناسبة احتفالاً بعيد القديس سمعان العمودي.
وكان عمود القديس سمعان قد خضع للترميم الشهر الماضي داخل البازيليك.
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
The haunting contrast: Turkish/Kurdish children playing beside the remnants of sacred Armenian heritage, completely unaware that the very ground beneath them once echoed with the laughter of Armenian children and later witnessed unimaginable tragedies…
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
🚨 JUST IN: NYC’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani just got humiliated by his own police department
He demanded taxpayer-funded NYPD protection for his wife’s trip to SYRIA and LEBANON, two Level 4 “Do Not Travel” countries full of terrorists.
The NYPD’s response? Hard no.
“I’m not going to have my members go over there… gear them up with SWAT and send them to Syria? That’s not what we’re going to do.”
Mamdani’s excuse? “Miscommunication.”
Sure.
This is the same guy the media treated like a socialist rockstar at his inauguration… the same guy who promised free buses and then RAISED fares… and the same guy still pushing a pied-à-terre tax that’s already driving high earners out of the state and costing New York $11 BILLION in lost revenue.
Working people get the bill. The elite get the excuses.
Classic.
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
Geghard Monastery, Armenia💙
Did you know that several of the inner chapels of Geghard Monastery were carved from the top down out of a single piece of solid rock?
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
La vida de los manuscritos antiguos es tan increíble como lo que narran. El Libro de los Himiaritas, un rarísimo texto siríaco del siglo VI del que solo existe una copia, sobrevivió porque en el siglo XV alguien lo usó para forrar otro libro. Lo encontró un erudito en 1920.
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
“These are dark times, my son.”
The hidden Christian Genocide the British let happen in 1933.
A British general named R.S Stafford described its brutality:
“A cold-blooded and methodical massacre of all the men in the village… as foul a crime as any in the bloodstained annals of the Middle East."
Assyrians lost half their population to the Turks & Kurds between 1915-1924.
They were split across four countries & betrayed by the British who they fought alongside during WW1.
They naively trusted their Christian brothers.
The newly formed Iraqi State, as it sought to mould its nationhood by blood, painted Assyrians as a Colonial Fifth Column.
After an intense & lengthy propaganda campaign, an Iraqi general of Kurdish origin lead the genocide after the genocide.
Assyrians in the Dohuk Region, already butchered by Ottomans & Kurds, were systematically targeted by Iraqi forces.
The Simele massacre was far smaller in scale to Seyfo, but had a greater psychological impact.
It fragmented church communities who began distancing themselves from the Assyrian cause, lest they fall to the sword.
Patriarchs retreated into their communities & saw a unified Assyrian Christian cause as a liability - one that would get them killed.
Stafford was an eyewitness to the events surrounding Simele & wrote a book titled “The Tragedy of The Assyrians”.
He went to Alqosh on August 21 of 1933 & found Assyrians “utterly-panic stricken”.
"In this unspeakable atmosphere there lived for six days, one thousand terrified women and children who had seen all their male relations killed before their eyes."
Simele broke the spirit of the Assyrians, which was somehow still intact after losing half their population in the Ottoman Genocide.
It sealed their fate into insular church communities who kept their heads down to survive.
Just like the Iraq War in 2003 & ISIS in 2014, two catastrophes within 20 years.
Two genocides in 20 years.
1915 to 1933.
Iraq still does not recognize the massacre.
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
Ethiopia became a Christian empire in 330 AD, before the conversion of Rome to Christianity.
The very first Christian coins displaying a cross were also from Ethiopia's Aksumite Empire.
Before Christianity, Temple Judaism had a presence there for over a thousand years.
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
We aren't alone...
Beautiful testimonies of about in the video, and my eyes fell on this story today
Then the mother came in, hugged her daughter, and asked her:
“My dear, how did you get the key??”
The little girl replied:
“The Father in the picture took it from on top of the television and told me:
‘Give this to Mama from under the
A lady once went through a very difficult situation.
One day, while cleaning the apartment, she stepped outside to clean the area in front of it and did not notice that a strong gust of wind shut the door behind her while she was outside.
The bigger problem was that the key had been left inside, on top of the television, and the television was on top of the wardrobe.
She also had a two-year-old daughter who became locked inside.
She kept reassuring her from behind the door and saying:
“Don’t be afraid, I’m coming, I’ll open the door soon…”
She thought about going to get a carpenter to break the door open, but she was afraid for the child.
She kept saying to herself:
“What should I do, Lord?”
Despite the despair and fear, she continued comforting her daughter every so often. Exhausted, she sat down on the stairs.
Then, after a few moments, the astonishing surprise happened…!!!
She suddenly saw the little girl’s hand reaching out with the key from under the apartment door…!!!
And she heard her daughter say:
“Here Mama, this is the apartment key…!!!”
The mother was stunned and kept saying to herself:
“How did the girl reach the key when the key was on top of the television, and the television was on top of the wardrobe???”
She went inside, hugged her daughter, and asked:
“But sweetheart, how did you get the key?”
The little girl answered:
“The Father in the picture took it from on top of the television and told me:
‘Give this to Mama from under the door.’”
“The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him…”
May the holy name of the Lord be glorified.
Pray for us our father Pope Kyrillos 🙏
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
I love the fraternal bond between HH Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, and HH Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
May God bless and protect both of our church fathers.
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
Amid (modern-day Diyarbakır) was an Assyrian city. These 2 Assyrian monuments discovered in Amid are now displayed in the British Museum. Amid was also an important center of the Church of the East and I believe served as the patriarchal seat during certain periods of its history
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Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
The Classical Syriac word for “pen” is qanyā (ܩܢܝܐ), a direct descendant of the Akkadian qanû (“reed”). However, in modern Assyrian, the more common word is qalama, which is cognate with Arabic qalam. Both ultimately derive from the Greek kalamos, meaning “reed” or “reed pen.”
Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
A 1600 year old Assyrian monastery is under threat in Turkey.
Mor Gabriel was founded in 397 AD in Tur Abdin, the heart of Syriac Christianity.
It is about to lose its surrounding land. Turkey reclassified ~288,000 m² as "forest land" and listed it for sale: €250,000.