Iraq News News Iraq » Religion: Addressing the Precarious Religious Freedom in Iraq
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 ...
News Iraq » Religion: 1 day with Iraq’s disappearing religion | The Yazidis
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 ...
News Iraq » Religion: Grassroots Efforts Bring Together Diverse Sects in Iraq
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 ...
News Iraq » Religion: Iraqi Christian woman wins legal battle over state-imposed Muslim religious identity
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 ...
News Iraq » Religion: Iraq reopens historic mosque in Mosul 8 years after Islamic State destruction
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister presided over the official reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in the heart of Mosul’s Old City Monday, eight years after the ...
News Iraq » Religion: Iraq’s Court of Cassation affirms woman’s right to be classified as Christian in state’s official database
(ZENIT News / Baghdad, 08.23.2026).- Iraq’s Court of Cassation has affirmed a previous ruling in favor of a young Christian woman, Maryam*, allowing her to have her official religious status corrected ...
News Iraq » Religion: President Bush, Iraq and Religious Rhetoric
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 ...
News Iraq » Religion: Iraq religious parties may face election backlash
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -When Iraqis last voted in 2005, some in Washington feared the mainly Muslim nation would veer in the direction of Iran, an Islamic theocracy, instead of becoming the moderate ...
News Iraq » Religion: In Iraq: One Religion, Two Realities
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 ...
News Iraq » Religion: The Religious Disenfranchisement of Assyrians in Iraq
(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 ...
News Iraq » Religion: Religious tolerance in Iraq waning
LONDON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Iraq is turning into a hostile region for religious minorities as the country moves closer to becoming a Muslim nation, Christian leaders said. Attacks in northern Iraq ...
News Iraq » Religion: Gays in Great Danger in Iraq
In 2005, during the height of internecine violence and resistance to the U.S. occupation, the country’s most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali a-Sistani, issued a religious decree that ...