According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), some 28 per cent of women in Iraq are married by 18. This is because of a loophole in the personal status law which allows religious ...

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On November 12, the very day the U.S. joined the military coalition Operation Free Sinjar against ISIS, Iraq enacted a law that will further victimize religious minorities, who have already ...

Pope: 'We cannot be silent when terrorism abuses religion' Iraq has been wracked by religious and sectarian violence, both against minorities and between Shia and Sunni Muslims too. People in what ...

In an excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography, Francis said two suicide bombers had been planning to attack one of his ...

The child then will follow his father's religion according to the laws in Iraq." To discuss the details of this law, SBS Assyrian correspondent from Duhok, Naseem Sadiq, spoke to Dr Muna Yaku ...

It's been 10 years since the ISIS takeover of parts of Iraq and Syria and the militant group's campaign of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority. ISIS fighters kidnapped or killed thousands ...

In the Italian excerpts, Francis recalled his historic March 2021 trip to Iraq, the first ever by a ... Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with ...

This project examines the efforts of Iraq’s post-2003 ruling elite, in partnership with the United States, to build a democratic system to manage religious and ethnic diversity. It aims to investigate ...

(RNS) — A report by Pew Research Center on international religious freedom named Egypt, Syria, Pakistan and Iraq as the countries where both government restrictions and social hostility most ...