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🚨NEWS: Migrants have been spotted crossing the English Channel in boats customised to be coloured with their nation's flag
This one is said to represent Kurdistan
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From Mesopotamia to India, Central Asia, Mongolia, and China, the Assyrian Church of the East established one of the largest Christian networks in history. Centuries before European missionaries reached Asia, Assyrian Christians had already carried the Gospel across continents
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The Assur ostracon, one of the earliest known examples of Aramaic cursive from ancient Assyria, preserves a letter from the Assyrian official Beletir to Piri Amurri during the reign of emperor Ashurbanipal.
Nearly 2,700 years later, modern Assyrians still speak this language.
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From an older July 1915 document showing
The Hussein-McMahon Correspondence which is responsible for establishing many Arab states and modern day Israel.
Britain stated it would recognize and support Arab independence in the Middle East following the defeat of the Ottomans.
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Every Christian should see this monastery one day.
Overlooking the Nineveh Plains, it is from 640 AD.
The same Old Testament land Jonah walked when he preached to the Assyrians.
The same people who still speak Aramaic till this day & custody these ancient holy sites.
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I think we can learn a lot from Yohanna Bar Dadi's words, the Assyrian leader who killed an entire Muslim army in 750 A.D.
"Today you know that no king will avenge our blood from these people. If we ignore them, they will rally against us to uproot us with everything we have"
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The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world but the Assyrian story didn’t end with the empire. 🦅
For thousands of years, Assyrians have preserved their culture, language, traditions, and identity across generations. An ancient people with a living legacy. ❤️💙🤍 #Assyrian
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Pictured here is general Agha Petros and his soldiers awaiting the surrender of the Muslims in Urmia, February 1918. (original quality)
Source of the image: Shamdinani Stories I. Kurdish Writings on the History and Culture of Central Kurdistan by Mullah Saʼid Shamdinani. (PDF)
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The last known mention of Gilgamesh before his 19th century rediscovery comes from Theodore Bar Koni, an 8th century Assyrian Christian scholar.
Though corrupted, his name appears twice as the 10th and 12th king in a list of twelve rulers who reigned between Peleg and Abraham.
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For many centuries the Latin world would call the Aramaic language "Chaldean language", however since its refutation by E. Kautzsch & other scholars, the Vatican has shifted away from using misnomer "Chaldaic" for the East-Syriac language.
3rd image - R. Gottheil, & W. Bacher.
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I am sounding the alarm.
The fragility of the Middle East right now cannot be underestimated.
We need @JDVance & co to understand how Christians are hanging on a thread.
How the next realignment will decide if Apostolic Christianity survives or dies.
Gone forever.
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Empires rise. Empires fall.
But the Assyrian people endured.
From the heart of Nineveh to the present day, historical records, language, culture, and genetic research all contribute to the story of an unbroken Assyrian presence.
🦅 #Assyrian #Nineveh #Mesopotamia #DNA #History
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The Assyrian people have always stood for their homeland, their faith, and their communities. We remember the 1,132 martyrs who gave their lives defending Lebanon. Their sacrifice is not just history it is a legacy carried by every generation.
May their memory be eternal. 🇱🇧✝️🦅
USUP honors 1,132 Syriac martyrs, reaffirms support for Lebanese sovereignty and Hezbollah disarmament
@IbrahimMradUSUP @ittihadseryeni | #Lebanon #SyriacMartyrs #LebaneseChristianResistance #LebaneseSovereignty #LebaneseArmedForces #Hezbollah
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There is a sense in which the Assyrians are the last living bridge between the Old & New Testament.
Let me explain.
Outside of Jews, they were the first people to repent to God in the Old Testament. When Jonah visited Nineveh at the height of Assyrian power, the Assyrians submitted themselves to the God of Abraham. Assyrians *today* still celebrate this repentance through a yearly fast known as the “Repentance of the Ninevites”.
Then, during the time of Christ, an Aramaic speaking King (likely Assyrian) in Upper Mesopotamia named King Abgar wrote to Christ *while he was alive*. He asked Jesus to heal his sickness. Jesus told his messenger he’d send someone to Edessa.
Thaddeus (who Assyrians know as Addai) came to Mesopotamia and Christianized this King. In an extremely quick period of time, Assyrians across all of Mesopotamia embraced the Gospel. As an example of how close this link was to the Apostles, the Anaphora of Addai & Mari is still performed in Assyrian liturgy today. That was brought to Assyria *from Jerusalem* directly.
So we have an Old Testament nation which is the first non-Jewish nation to repent; and then the first nation (alongside Armenians) to become Christian—which still speaks Aramaic today & conducts a liturgy which can trace itself to the Apostles!
There is literally no other nation which can claim to carry such a direct & continuous link from the Old to New Testament.
My dream is that the world will one day see the protection & renewal of Assyria not as a matter of charity, but as a crucial duty of Christendom, a duty to preserve the final remaining chain between the Old Testament & the New Covenant.
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Don’t care how it ends, it’s been a beautiful journey, thank you. teapaw.org/messivibe/status/18582…