Iraq News News Iraq » Religion: Grassroots Efforts Bring Together Diverse Sects in Iraq
I hope our grassroots work will push the leaders, but I don’t know.” His uncertainty is warranted for Iraq as well. Under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, a Sunni, the nation had a nominally ...
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: Shiites, Kurds agree Iraq won't have a 'religious government'
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Shiite and Kurdish politicians refined plans to form a coalition government that officials said includes an agreement not to turn the country into an Islamic state, as Ukraine ...
News Iraq » Religion: Rumsfeld - No religious government for Iraq
WASHINGTON -- The United States will not allow an Iran-style religious government to take hold in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. He also said Syria and others in the region ...
News Iraq » Religion: Kurdistan PM Masrour Barzani Meets Global Religious Leader Sheikh Nahro Kasnazani
The discussion focused on Kurdistan’s development, recent changes in Iraq, and the protection of constitutional rights.
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: What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?
While most Religion Dispatches readers are familiar with the growing influence of Christian Zionists and their close relationship with Israel, few are probably aware of the penetration of American ...
News Iraq » Religion: Renewed Calls to Divide Nineveh Province Spark Political Debate in Iraq
The renewed calls to divide Nineveh have not been welcomed by all. The Civilians (Madaniyoun) Party rejected the proposals on October 19, warning that any move to partition the province would endanger ...
News Iraq » Religion: Religious complicationsMixture of faiths will challenge postwar Iraq
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 ...
News Iraq » Religion: Religious leaders protest war in Iraq
CHICAGO (AP) -- In a rally reminiscent of those opposing the war in Vietnam, Roman Catholic Cardinal Francis George, United Methodist Church Bishop C. Joseph Sprague and other religious leaders took ...
News Iraq » Religion: Major archaeological sites in Iraq at risk of erosion due to climate change
Dry weather is increasing salinity in soil and damaging ruins of cities such as Ur, birthplace of Biblical patriarch Abraham, and ancient capital Babylon, warn archaeologists ...
News Iraq » Religion: A man wielding an axe wounds 3 people at the Assyrian Christian new year parade in Iraq
DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Witnesses said the attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran toward the crowd shouting Islamic slogans. DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — The annual parade by Assyrian Christians in ...