The military presence in Baghdad lightened today when Marines left the Army in control of the stabilizing capital. Celebrating Easter, a longtime Iraqi bishop voiced the fears of the Christian ...

If I returned to my homeland today, more than 40 years after I left as a refugee, I would be arrested and subject to execution or life imprisonment. That’s the kind of persecution Christians face in ...

Barham Salih, who fought against Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq and later served as president, was chosen to lead the U.N.

BAGHDAD, Iraq Sunni politicians Wednesday accused Iraq's Shiite-led government of persecuting Sunnis and called for an international inquiry after the discovery of a bunker full of abused detainees at ...

An Iraqi asylum seeker who claimed he was discriminated against in his home country because of a speech impediment has won the right to stay in the UK. The unnamed Kurd told an immigration tribunal he ...

TIMISOARA, Romania, July 16 (UNHCR) - As a child, Saad* had the dreams that millions of children share - at first he wanted to become a pilot and then a professional football player. But the war in ...

Marking the 11th anniversary of forced displacement of Christians in Iraq, Father Benedict Kiely presented an icon of Our Lady of Persecuted Christians to Bishop Benedictus Younan Hanno, Syriac ...

Ex-Muslims in Iraq who convert to Christianity face consequences that could range from beatings to kidnappings — or even death. Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC), recently ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council warned Tuesday that the Islamic State extremist group may be held accountable for crimes against humanity for its systematic persecution of minorities ...

On Feb. 6, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on "eradicating anti-Christian bias," ushering in a new task force to revoke policies aimed at oppressing America's Christians. Since ...

Father Benedict Kiely presented the icon to Bishop Benedictus Younan Hanno, Syriac Catholic archbishop of Mosul and its dependencies, on Aug. 6 in Qaraqosh, Iraq. Bishop Benedictus Hanno receives the ...