Last Sunday morning, driving to our Syriac Aramaic Church in Boston — built by three generations from the Iraqi, Lebanese, and Syrian diasporas who escaped war and persecution — my parents and ...
Manuscripts in eleven languages adorn the shelves of the library, with the texts being predominantly Greek. Important collections in Arabic, Syriac, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Georgian, and ...
They stopped using Greek and used the Syriac language in their liturgy. The Syriac language is similar to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. Through the work of Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries ...
Only two words that I heard were recognisable: Alleluia and Amen. Both come from Hebrew. At home these worshippers speak the related Aramaic, descended from the language that Jesus spoke. Worship is ...
As an aside, one German scholar has argued that this is a mistranslation, and that, if the Koran was translated into Syriac-Aramaic rather than Arabic, the heavenly rewards offered to martyrs ...
Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The next Syrian constitution must guarantee the rights of the Syriac and Assyrian Christian minorities as the communities face an uncertain future ...