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Assyrian activist Juliana Taimoorazy of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council meets with Iraqi Christian refugees in Amman, Jordan, during a trip there in January 2018. The organization distributed over 2,400 buckets of food to refugees in Jordan and Iraq. | (Photo: Iraqi Christian Relief Council)
Assyrians are one of the first nations to convert to Christianity and have played a massive role in the spreading of Christianity throughout the world. According to the Assyrian Church of the East, the Apostle Thomas converted Assyrians to Christianity within a generation after the death of Jesus.
To this day, Assyrians still speak a version of the language of Jesus, Aramaic. Aramaic was a broader family of languages, said Nicholas Al-Jeloo, a prominent expert of Assyrian and Middle East history. Jesus spoke Galilean Aramaic and Assyrians speak Assyrian Aramaic.
Photographer Thijs Broekkamp takes day trip to Mosul - and returns with an astonishing set of images dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Dressed all in black and wearing a Rolex, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi slowly climbed the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al Nuri in Mosul and declared himself caliph of the Islamic State. It was June 2014, and Baghdadi was attempting to lend historical and religious legitimacy to an orgy of violence that already included beheadings and human crucifixions and would soon add genocide and mass rape-slavery.
On March 7 of this year, dressed all in white, His Holiness Pope Francis slowly climbed the steps of a temporary platform in a public square surrounded by the ruins of four churches in Mosul. Reports say that his sciatica has been bothering him, and in videos from the trip, he has an obvious limp.
Pope s Iraq Trip Must Highlight Precarious Situation of Assyrian Christians | Opinion Bradley Martin
, Executive director, Near East Center for Strategic Studies On 3/12/21 at 7:30 AM EST
On Monday, Pope Francis ended his trip to Iraq where he preached a message of peace and religious tolerance over a four-day period.
In this first-ever visit by a pope to the country, the pontiff sought to bring global attention to Iraq s ancient and battered Christian community. Pope Francis message of hope provided much-needed comfort to Assyrian Christian survivors of the genocidal campaign by ISIS.
While widely viewed as inspiring, Pope Francis historic visit to Iraq must serve as an opportunity to end the ongoing ethnic cleansing and persecution of Assyrian Christians and other minorities in their ancestral homeland.