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 ...

(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 limit the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two historic churches in Mosul, Iraq, have officially reopened after years of restoration, nearly a decade after their destruction during the Islamic State's occupation, a rare moment of revival for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako on Tuesday called for rejecting proposed amendments to the law governing the Endowments Office for Christians, Yazidis, and Mandaeans, warning that the ...

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 ...

After United States Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech Wednesday urging the United Nations to take action against Iraq and with the United States inching closer and closer to military ...

Pakistan and Iraq are ready to connect people, faith and trade with a new ferry service connecting Gwadar Port in Pakistan with Umm Qasr Port in Iraq. This Pakistan and Iraq initiative comes following ...