Jeremy Barker, Associate Vice President for International Strategy at the Religious Freedom Institute moderated a panel concerning religious freedom in Iraq at the International Religious Freedom ...

Discovering an ancient religion in the mountains of Iraq, specifically in Northern Iraq, also known as Iraqi Kurdistan, offers a unique perspective on a region often misunderstood. The Yazidis, known ...

President Bush had rejected the argument that war in Iraq is against God-s will. As have almost all American presidents to support their policies, Bush invokes religion in his speeches about a ...

An Iraqi court has ruled in favor of a young Christian woman to protect her identity, allowing her to have her religious status corrected in the government’s official database after she had been ...

Interfaith group uses projects and dialogues to push for greater religious freedom. This is the third article in a three-part series about the problem of sectarianism in the Middle East and ways the ...

(AINA) -- The use of the "Christian" label for indigenous peoples in Iraq, particularly in northern Iraq, is not neutral. It carries political, legal, and historical consequences that undermine ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An envelope holding a single bullet was waiting on their doorstep. There was no need for a note. Everyone in town knows what it means: Leave or the next time it could be a bomb or a ...

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Analysis: Iraq Is Threatening to Roll Back Women’s ...

Each week in Baghdad, sermons to the faithful offer a tale of two Fridays. Both sermons -- one Sunni, the other Shiite -- dwell on the issues that color Baghdad's weary life: the insurgency, elections ...

President Bush told a gathering of Iraqi-Americans last week that everyone in the new Iraq will enjoy freedom, "whether you're Sunni or Shia or Kurd or Chaldean or Assyrian or Turkoman or Christian or ...

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Thousands of Shi'ite Muslims in southern Iraq are wrestling with a choice of religion or democracy before a pilgrimage which may prevent them from voting in an upcoming ...