Father Abdullah (Ado) leads a small procession holding a cross made of olive branches around the Mor Barsavmo church as part of the special Palm Sunday mass on April 20, 2003 in Midyat, in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people living in the area historically known as northern Mesopotamia, the Tur Abdin region, for about 5,000 years. They are one of the oldest cultures to have adopted Christianity, doing so some 300 years...
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Father Abdullah (Ado) leads a small procession holding a cross made of olive branches around the Mor Barsavmo church as part of the special Palm Sunday mass on April 20, 2003 in Midyat, in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people living in the area historically known as northern Mesopotamia, the Tur Abdin region, for about 5,000 years. They are one of the oldest cultures to have adopted Christianity, doing so some 300 years before the Romans.
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