WCA Proclaims 'Aramean New Year' of 1 October as Aram Day, National Day of the Aramean People
Centuries-old Aramaic calendars and church books show that 1 October was celebrated as “the New Year of the Arameans.” On this day, our church fathers also decided to honor St. Aday (one of Jesus’ 72 disciples from Luke 10:1) for Christianizing the Arameans of Aram. As a means to preserve this ancient but meaningful tradition, and thus to help strengthen our collective identity, WCA has proclaimed the Aramean New Year of 1 October as Aram Day, as the National Day of the Aramean People. Read more about it below in these 9 languages:
ܐܪܡܝܐ ARAMAIC (SURYOYO) ENGLISH DEUTSCH SVENSKA
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Congratulations on Your Election as the 46th U.S. President
Your Excellency,
Dear Mr. President Biden,
On behalf of the World Council of Arameans (Syriacs) and its national member federations across Europe, America, Australia and the Middle East, we wish to congratulate you on your inauguration as the 46th President of the United States of America.
Call to Tur-Abdin Aramaic Language Teachers and Linguists
How do you translate new words such as NOMOPHOBIA in Tur-Abdin Aramaic? The Tur-Abdin Aramaic Language Committee (TALC) will focus on reassessing existing words and on introducing new ones in this centuries-old Aramaic dialect. It's high time to bring the right people together to reach a majority consensus about these questions so that Aramaic can be modernized and its speakers can continue to keep this beautiful dialect alive.
WCA Representative Asks UN-led Syrian Constitutional Committee in Geneva to Recognize Aramaic
Yesterday, on 1 November 2019, Ms. Hala Naoum Néhmé presented an oral statement in Geneva to the Syrian Constitutional Committee under auspieces of the United Nations. As recently announced, Ms. Néhmé is one of the five candidates proposed by WCA to the UN for a committee consisting of 150 eligible members who will be tasked with drafting a new constitution for Syria. Here we share the English translation of the speech given in Arabic, but both versions can be downloaded below.
