by Mindy Belz
Christian Headlines
...The Assyrian cities of the province are some of the oldest in the world, and Assyrian Christians in Hasaka started the world’s earliest seminaries and put into Syriac (or Aramaic, the language of Jesus) the oldest liturgies in the world, many still in use. From the ancient Assyrian towns across the region, the early church sent the first missionaries to central Asia along the Silk Road, then to India and China.