‘Rise Nineveh’: Christians in Iraq celebrate Assyrian New Year and Easter
The Easter holiday and Palm Sunday celebrations across Nineveh and in Mosul and Duhok seem to show a drive for reconstruction and energy being put in to the post-ISIS future.
Assyrian Christians celebrate during the anniversary of Akitu, which marked the beginning of the new year in the ancient Assyrian age, in Dohuk, Iraq April 1(photo credit: ARI JALAL / REUTERS)BySETH J. FRANTZMANUpdated:
