An Urge for Aramean Unity During the Sayfo (and WW1)
"We the Syriacs [Suryoye]—while we are of one race, which is the Aramean race [genso ʾOromoyo] and from one land, which is Mesopotamia [Beth Nahrin] and of one language, which is the Syriac language [leshono Suryoyo]—have fought, hated, killed, and excommunicated each other over the “persons,” “qnume,” and “natures” in Christ…"
"O beloved brothers, let us awaken from the slumber of negligence… and rise to make a Syriac union [ḥuyodo Suryoyo] in the midst of this Great War… and build a tower of Syriac union, not in the manner in which our forefathers built the tower of Babylon with vain pride, but a tower of love."
An editorial in Beth Nahrin, written in Syriac during World War I, calls for unity among Aramean/Syriac Christian denominations, especially in times of crisis. The author reflects on early Christological controversies that divided churches such as the Syriac Orthodox and the Church of the East, and urges a ḥuyodo (union) to overcome these historical divisions among the Aramean people. Notably, although the publication usually used the Serto script, this editorial appears in Classical Syriac in the East Syriac script with vowel markings, likely to make it accessible to Eastern Syriac readers.
