First, scholars now agree that the term Chaldeans is almost assuredly an anachronism, as it refers to a Semitic people who didn’t show up in Ur until the 7 th century B.C Abraham, by contrast ...

“In this square, in front of the abode of Abraham our father, it feels like going back home”. Thus, after being received in Najaf by Great Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, Pope Francis had begun the speech ...

As the ankawa.com website points out, the visit of the ecclesiastical delegation is part of the attempt -also supported by local and national authorities - to promote the area of Ur of the Chaldeans ...

Because the moment he made the decision to leave Ur, he had created something. Everything we do, whether it’s an extensive, 24-7 adherence or a casual, periodic interest, is rooted in Abraham ...

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans (Kasdim) for the land of ...

Shoshana V’Ahron Yosef HaKohen (1938-2020). “Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, his daughter-in-law Sarai … and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land ...

Ur, known in Hebrew as Ur Kasdim and in English as Ur of the Chaldeans, is mentioned three times in Genesis. Though it is not explicitly stated, it is implied that Abraham originates from there ...

The Chaldeans have occupied what was once Mesopotamia, the setting for the Bible’s Book of Genesis, for 5,000 years and were among the first people to be converted to Christianity.

Terah, the father of Abram, moved his family from Ur of the Chaldeans to Haran on the way to Canaan. After his father died in Haran, “the Lord said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your people ...

They set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan, but when they had come as far as Haran, they settled there … and Terach died in Haran” [Gen. 11:31-32].

Baghdad (AsiaNews) – The imminent inauguration of a Church in Ur of the Chaldeans, four years after the visit of Pope Francis, is a "message" and a sign of "openness”, this according to Card ...