During the past few months I have spent working with religious minorities in Iraq, I have realized that these communities and Iraq’s anti-government ...
At least seven Christians have been freed from prison in Iran, according to nonprofit Christian watchdog Article 18 as the government released tens ...
When ISIS took over the Nineveh plains in northern Iraq in 2014, terrorized Christian residents fled in fear of their lives. Six years later, despite ...
When Iranian authorities sentenced two women to death in 2009 for spreading the message of Christianity, international observers feared the worse from ...
Threatened with extinction and political conflict, Christians in the Holy Land are using Christmas as an opportunity to promote unity among their ...
The Iranian regime has begun cracking down on evangelical Christians in Iran in the run-up to Christmas, experts and Iranian Christians said.Security ...
The head of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church announced on Tuesday that the community would not hold public celebrations of Christmas out of ...
A fragment of wood reputed to be from the manger where Jesus was laid after his humble birth went on display in Jerusalem on Friday, ahead of its ...
Leaders from three of the world’s major religions have joined forces against assisted suicide and euthanasia, in a declaration issued at the ...
Police in southern Bangladesh arrested a prominent poet Tuesday after he was accused of hurting the religious feelings of the country’s minority ...
Interreligious dialogue between Islam and Christianity is evolving under the mandate of His Holiness Pope Francis. Many events reveal that this ...
In the main square in the northern Iraqi town of Bartella stands a large cross, one of the few overt signs the town was historically Christian. Nearby ...
Egypt’s Higher Committee to Counter Sectarian Violence was formed on December 30, 2018. The committee, headed by the president’s advisor ...
In a speech given during his historic visit to Abu Dhabi, Pope Francis said that no violence can be justified in the name of religion and must be ...
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of ...
Not only did 2019 witness the inauguration of Egypt’s largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital, it kicked off with the ...
In a move described as an insult to Iraq’s history, several churches have been put up for sale to be converted into commercial or residential ...
Monday will be a public holiday in Egypt to mark Coptic Orthodox Christmas, state news agency MENA reported on Thursday. Prime Minister Mostafa ...
Every morning, a young girl prepares her pencils and papers, carries her bag, saying goodbye to her mother and heads to school. She does not ask about ...
The head of Iraq’s Sunni Endowment authority on Saturday condemned recent remarks from the country's mufti, who said it was impermissible for ...
Prominent Iraqi cleric and Grand Mufti Abdul-Mehdi al-Sumaidaie said on Thursday that Christian holidays “like New Year’s and Christmas ...
A growing number of organizations in Jerusalem are reportedly offering “proxy prayers” by priests and rabbis at holy sites for worshippers ...
Christians in Gaza celebrated Christmas in the Church of Saint Porphyrius this year, one of the oldest and biggest churches in Gaza. The ...
It was December 2009, when Baitullah Mehsud revolted against the state of Pakistan and formed a notorious movement, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan [TTP], ...
Iraqi Christians are preparing to celebrate their first Christmas together in areas liberated from ISIS, amid high security after calm has been ...
Jesus, or Isa as he is known in Arabic, is mentioned often in the Quran and is revered
The controversy over including religion in state-issued Egyptian IDs is far from new and so is the attempt to issue a law that omits this slot. The ...
Emirati megastar Hussain Al Jassmi recently sang at the annual Christmas charity concert, the Concerto di Natale, making him the first Arab Gulf ...
The history of wars between Muslims, Christians and Jews fills volumes of books. Does this history of wars and conflicts fix history on the 13th ...
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