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The Female Protection Forces of the Land Between Two Rivers was a small female battalion in Syria. Its members were trained in the north-eastern town of Al-Qahtaniyeh in Syria and were one of many small militia groups fighting ISIS in Syria. It was made up of Syriac Christian women. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Women in Syria are active participants in social, economic and political factions of Syrian society. They constitute 49.9% of Syria's population. According to World Bank data from 2021, there are around 10.6 million women in Syria. [6] However, Syrian women and girls still experience challenges, especially since the outbreak of the civil war in ...
Mary Roy (1933 – 1 September 2022) was an Indian educator and women's rights activist known for winning a Supreme Court lawsuit in 1986 against the inheritance law prevalent within the Syrian Malabar Nasrani community of Kerala. The judgement ensured equal rights for Syrian Christian women as with their male siblings in their ancestral property.
Chattayum Mundum is a traditional attire used by the Syrian Christian women of Kerala. [1] It is a seamless white garment, consisting of a white blouse covering the whole upper part of the body ("Chatta") and a long white garment called "Mundu" which is wrapped around the waist which reaches to the ankles.
The final verdict of 1986, accorded all Syrian Christian women, equal property rights as their male siblings. [160] [161] Suzanna Arundhati Roy, the first Indian national to win the Booker Prize for Literature (1997), is Mary Roy's daughter. [161]
Kayla Jean Mueller (August 14, 1988 – February 6, 2015) was an American human rights activist and humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, United States.She was taken captive in August 2013 in Aleppo, Syria, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital.
Suzan Der Kirkour was a sixty-year-old Armenian woman (Christian by faith) - a retired gardener and Arabic teacher from al-Yaqoubiyeh village in Idlib, Syria. She used to provide various kind of help to the Kneye Village Church where she often helped youth achieve their baccalaureate. [5] The woman went missing on 8 July 2019.
Christianity in Syria has among the oldest Christian communities on Earth, dating back to the first century AD, and has been described as a "cradle of Christianity". [1] With its roots in the traditions of St. Paul the Apostle and St. Peter the Apostle, Syria quickly became a major center of early Christianity and produced many significant theologians and church leaders.