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The Inventiveness of a Modern "Chaldean" Identity:

After a Synod held in Rome on 4-8 October 2017, Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako and the prelates of the Chaldean Catholic Church released a politically-charged statement calling their adherents “a genuine Chaldean people,” officially rejecting “the labels that distort our Chaldean identity, such as the composite name ‘Chaldean-Syriac Assyrian,’” and calling upon members of the Church to “adhere to their Chaldean identity.” The statement also encouraged “our Chaldeans… not to split into unidentified groups or follow illusory projects that harm Christians” – an obvious attack on adherents of the Church who identify as Assyrians, believe in the unity and ethnic solidarity of Assyrian-Chaldeans, engage in political and human rights activism, or advocate for self-protection units and the creation of an autonomous area in northern Iraq. For most outsiders, this identity dispute seems trivial, for the Assyrian-Chaldeans, it is a matter of national identity.

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