- Created on 06 May 2021
Virtual Gallery of Top 10 Artworks on Mor Gregorios from Aleppo, Syria
Watch this beautiful Online Gallery of the Top 10 Artworks of WCA's Art Prize contest on H.E. Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim after we recently shared the first two winners! We thank the many participants and the jury members. Their contributions help us remember and honor the two kidnapped Archbishops of Aleppo, Syria.
- Created on 22 April 2021
Winner WCA Art Prize
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the WCA Art Prize contest! The first prize goes to Fouad Roham from Austria, the second place to Samir Sherro from Canada. Heartfelt congratulations to these two winning artists! They will receive the symbolic amounts of €250 and €150, respectively.
- Created on 08 April 2021
Turkish Court Sentences Aramean Monk To 25 Months Prison On Terror Charges
Fr. Aho (Sefer BILEÇEN), an Aramean monk in Southeast Turkey, was sentenced in absentia by a criminal court in Mardin to more than two years imprisonment for alleged terrorist links. His lawyer is appealing the verdict that has shocked Arameans worldwide. WCA has reached out to high-level Turkish Government officials and continues to monitor the appeal process of this case.
- Created on 20 March 2021
New WCA Department: Aramaic Language and Cultural Heritage
On 20 March 2021, the World Council of Arameans (Syriacs) (“WCA”) created the Aramaic Language and Cultural Heritage Department (“ALCHD”). Several projects will be launched in the near future to preserve and promote the Aramaic language and cultural heritage.
- Created on 18 March 2021
Join the WCA Art Prize and win €250
On 18 March 2021, WCA invited creative minds and artists to contribute to the WCA Art Prize 2021 and win €250! This initiative was taken to remember and honor the kidnapped Archbishop of Aleppo, Syria, Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim. For more background on this underreported issue, see here.
- Created on 10 September 2020
USAID Recognizes Partnership with WCA in Bartella, North Iraq
On 7 September 2020, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) recognized its partnership with the World Council of Arameans (Syriacs) (WCA) regarding the reconstruction of a community center. After ISIS seized the largely Aramean Christian town of Bartella in the Nineveh Plain in August 2014, it began to make use of this building.
- Created on 22 August 2020
WCA Partners With USAID In Reconstructing Community Center In Bartella, North Iraq
As part of a shared commitment to help rebuild the threatened ethno-religious minorities in Iraq, in November 2019 the World Council of Arameans (Syriacs) (WCA) partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support a critically important project in the largely Aramean town of Bartella in the Nineveh Plain.
- Created on 09 July 2020
PYD Security Releasing ISIS Prisoners In Syria In Exchange For Money
Sources from the infamous al-Hol camp in Northeast Syria confirm that the Kurdish forces are releasing ISIS terrorists in return for money. Local Aramean Christians condemn this form of corruption, which also threatens the security and stability of this volatile region.
- Created on 29 June 2020
PYD/PYG Exploits Education Again As Tool To Kurdify Northeast Syria
Last week, Aramean Christian students from Northeast Syria were infuriated, because they are prohibited to complete their last exams, granting them access to universities. The self-declared Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, led by the PYD/YPG Kurds, thereby puts the future of young generations at risk and continues its long-known plan of transforming this fertile part of the country into an independent Kurdish region.
