syria – At The Crossroads

Expert on Eastern Christianity, Petra Heldt, and two consequential conversations

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 No Comment

Dr. Petra Heldt, director of the Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel (ETRFI), teaches the history and theology of Eastern Christianity at the Jerusalem University College. Two seminal encounters influenced her trajectory and her studies of the development of Christianity shedding more light on the dynamics in Assyria and the Middle East. Petra first came to Israel from Germany in 1979 when she was asked …

The Prophetic Journey of the Isaiah Scroll to the Assyrian Church

September 16, 2026July 30, 2026 No Comment

Original article from ALL ISRAEL NEWS, reposted with permission The Isaiah Scroll, the most complete and important of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran, is currently on display at the Israel Museum for the first time since 1968. Although the distance from Qumran to Jerusalem is a mere 23 kilometers (14 miles), the manuscript …

Urgent Prayer for Syria: Voices from the Ground

January 29, 2026January 29, 2026 No Comment

We just held a prayer call focusing on the Kurds in Syria, where believers on the ground (identified by their initial) shared the following points for prayer: The US has decided to switch support from the Kurds, who have been their allies fighting ISIS for many years, to Al Jolani and his jihadi HTS troops …

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Reluctantly Redrawing the Map of Syria: Back to the Days of ISIS?

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026 No Comment

Exactly a year ago, we wrote to ask for prayer for northeast Syria, for the Kurdish enclave of Rojava (also known as the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria, AANES). There’s some good news and some bad news, but much more to pray about. With al-Jolani’s rise to power we asked you to pray that …