I dedicate this web-site to all the Assyrians of the world in general and to The Catholicos Patriarch of The Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church of The East, His Holiness Mar Dinkha, in particular. Sam Razali Shooma Bet-Malik Content: 1) Introduction 2) Assyria and Assyrians 3) Aramaic Language: The Linguistic Heritage of Assyrians 4) Assyrians after Assyria 5) Christianity and Assyrians 5a) The Story of Edessa, Abgar and Jesus 5b) The Founding of the First Christian Church 5c) The Spreading of Christianity: Assyrian Missionaries of The Church of The East 5d) Theological Disputes and Divisions in the Church 6) Assyrians Today 7) References Send your comments to:Shoomatouraya@yahoo.co.uk or sam@assyrians-homeland.org or write to: Sam Razali PO Box 18681 London NW3 4NG United Kingdom Web-designer: Frank Peacock frank@assyrians-homeland.org |
TO ASSYRIAN HOMELAND (www.assyrians-homeland.org) The Cradle of Civilization and The Birth of Christianity Please read first the content of this homepage and then the "Introduction" before reading any other article. And also please introduce this web-site to as many people as you can. Thank you Assyrians and the Future The Church of The East has another Mission to accomplish; in a way, perhaps more formidable task. The time will come that she will have the support, let us hope, of all the Assyrians (numbering nearly 3.5 million). Today they are scattered in so many countries of the world. These inherently cultured and instinctively courageous people will rise up again and become 'One'. This is the Will of God for the Assyrians, who will do once again great works. Christ said, And let the world know that the language of the Assyrians is Aramaic, Assyriac Aramaic, but not Syriac, a meaningless misnomer; their language is the one spoken by Jesus Christ - Aramaic language. And also the Assyrian Church is The Holy Apostolic Church of The East, the first Christian Church. It is not Nestorian Church. 'Nestorianism' and 'Syriac' are nothing more than 'shambolic misnomers' created by the unjust world and imposed unjustly upon the Assyrians, mainly out of cultural envy and theological bigotry in order not only to undermine the Assyrians' identity but also to deny their existence as they have done so throughout the centuries. Assyrians must wake up. They must go on proclaiming their identity and declaring their historical greatness.Assyrians must also let the world know of their continued contributions to the civilization and Christianity of the world. By doing so Assyrians can 'prove' to the world that they can, once again, play an important part in transforming this chaotic world that we live in. | The 'Vanished' Assyrians I don't think I am exaggerating by saying, Yet, the Unjust World, including the United Nations, thinks (and has always tried to think) that Assyrians do not exist; they say, Assyrians 'vanished' from the face of the Earth in 612 BC, when their Great Empire fell. But of course a large number of Assyrians survived the aftermath of the decline of Assyria. And in fact, Assyrians after Assyria have contributed to the World even more than when they had their glorious Empire. I am going to quote a few excerpts from the book, The excerpts are from chapters 23 and 24.It begins with, And somewhere in the middle of chapter 24 we read, And in the same chapter under the heading, 'Civilization of the Church of The East', we read, |