Fleeing ISIS: Aramaic-speaking Christians in the Niniveh Plains after ISIS
Fleeing ISIS: Aramaic-speaking Christians in the Niniveh Plains after ISIS

Author(s): Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Politics, Geography, Regional studies, Security and defense, Demography and human biology, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Iraq; Nineveh plains; ISIS; migration; Aramaic-speaking Christians;
Summary/Abstract: Excluding the Armenians and some small groups of converts , the Iraqi Christians are the indigenous people of Iraq. Their roots go back thousands of years before Christianity in the lands of Mesopotamia. In other words, I believe the Iraqi Christians are the true native people of Iraq, being descendants of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians. The Aramaic-speaking Christians (Assyrians, Chaldeans, Chaldo-Assyrians) are not a new Christian community ‘evangelised’ by western missionaries, as is the case in many African and East Asian Christian communities.

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