Another member of the Iraqi Religious Freedom Roundtable, Amir Mawloud, from Kurdistan, spoke next. The Kurds are a large minority in Iraq, with their own regional government, and he pointed out that ...

Most secularists believe that these religious apocalyptic visions of the future are absurd, although many secularists themselves fervently believe that artificial intelligence, run away genetic ...

it is hardly any progress for Christians facing subjugation outside of the U.S. Neglecting to help Christians—the world's most persecuted religion—in foreign lands undermines the reach of Trump's ...

The interim constitution, which emphasizes Islamic jurisprudence, stipulates that Syria's president must be a Muslim and ...

The setting was war-torn northeast Syria. Within the territory controlled by Kurdish fighters was a string of Assyrian Christian farming villages along the Khabur River. These Assyrians had ...

The Assyrian Evangelical Church marked its 100th ... “It was considered a religious center but also a cultural center,” said Ashour Yadegar, who left Iran during the Islamic Revolution and ...

During the 2024 excavation season, researchers uncovered two new shrines within the Temple of Ninurta in Nimrud, Iraq, which was devastated by fire around 2,600 years ago. According to ...

Armenian and Assyrian Christians ... to prevent Bahais from burying their dead in accordance with their religious tradition, and continued demolition of the Bahai cemetery in Shiraz, where ...

Philadelphia, Pa -- The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and showcases the rise of the New Assyrian Empire.

Since introducing the executive order, Trump has faced backlash for the decision's potential to "misuse religious freedom ... the reach of Trump's intentions. Assyrians, an ethnic group indigenous ...