WASHINGTON — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is split along party lines over whether to designate Iraq as a “country of particular concern” for religious freedom. A ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In a postwar Iraq tormented by growing violence and uncertainty, the men with the power are the ones in robes and turbans - Muslim clerics counseling spiritual renewal and active ...

The US Special Envoy to Iraq, Mark Savaya, confirmed on Thursday that the United States is fully prepared to support Iraq.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi government decree banning soldiers and police from wearing beards on duty has revived a debate over religious practices in a country where sectarian divisions between ...

Sponsored by Empower Women Media, the film competition elevates women’s voices as they explore the importance of inclusion and multi-faith societies. The grand prize winner receives a $3,000 cash ...

A decision by Iraqi officials to demolish a 300-year-old religious spire and tourist attraction in the city of Basra has prompted outcries from the local community. For three centuries, the al-Siraji ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An envelope holding a single bullet was waiting on their doorstep. There was no need for a note. Everyone in town knows what it means: Leave or the next time it could be a bomb or a ...

President Bush had rejected the argument that war in Iraq is against God-s will. As have almost all American presidents to support their policies, Bush invokes religion in his speeches about a ...

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 ...

Since the fall of Hussein in April 2003, Iraqi communities have resisted the impulse to settle scores, some of which are based on grievances dating back decades, even centuries. But in the words that ...