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The NCCA gathers together Churches and Christian communities which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures. We commit to deepen our relationship with each other and to work together towards the fulfilment of common witness, proclamation and service, to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Kha b-Nisan 
Assyrians and Chaldeans mark Kha b-Nisan, also known as Akitu, at the beginning of spring in the Northern hemisphere. Celebrated by indigenous Assyrians of Northern Iraq, North-eastern Syria, South-eastern Turkey and North-western Iran on 1 April.

The Sydney Assyrian and Chaldean community marked this celebration with a Festival held on Sunday 30 March at Fairfield Showground. Esteemed members of Federal and State Parliament, along with Mayors and Councillors from Fairfield and Liverpool City Councils were welcomed to the Festival at the Opening Ceremony.

For photos and more information on the event please visit Assyrian Festival Facebook   

Related celebrations:

Naw-Ruz –the Baha’i New Year

This celebration begins on the evening of 20 March and ends on the evening of 21March.

Naw-Ruz (Nowruz) marks the first day in the Baha’i calendar. The festival is usually observed with meetings for prayer and celebration, often combined with a feast at sunset before Naw-Ruz to signal the end of a19-day fast.

Norouz New Year
Norouz means ‘new day’ in Farsi and is a traditional festival of spring that has been celebrated for more than 3000 years. The ancient celebration of Norouz is shared by many peoples from Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, and others in the Black Sea basin, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Western, Central and Southern Asia. It seems this festival has a number of different spellings.