The Assyrian Evangelical Church is a Presbyterian church in the Middle East that attained a status of ecclesiastical independence from the Presbyterian mission in Iran in 1870.
There are several Assyrian Evangelical churches in the diaspora, e.g. in San Jose, Turlock, and Chicago.
In 2010, one of its Iranian pastors was arrested in Kermanshah and detained for 54 days for allegedly attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.
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“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold:”
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Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
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