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An ancient soap-making tradition in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has been added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. NPR visits one of the oldest soap factories in the city of Nablus.

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These Christians were members of the Assyrian Church of the East, an ancient Church that flourished ... Assyrian mystic and theologian St. Isaac of Nineveh in the Roman Martyrology.