Religion

Nadine Maenza, Advocate for international religious freedom. (Photo: social media)

Kurdistan

USCIRF Chair praises designation of Kurdistan's Ankawa as new district

Franklin Graham delivering a speech at John Stiff Memorial Park in Amarillo, TX, Sep. 27, 2021, (Photo: Franklin Graham Twitter Account)

Kurdistan

Franklin Graham praises PM Barzani’s decision to make Ankawa a district

Archbishop of the Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, Bishop Bashar Matti Warda in an interview with Kurdistan 24, Oct. 4, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Archbishop Bashar Warda praises decision to turn Erbil's Ankawa into district

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani during his visit to Ainkawa. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan's Ankawa will be biggest district of Christians in Middle East, says PM Masrour Barzani

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) meets with prominent religious scholar Abdul Latif Ahmed, Oct. 2, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region PM stresses importance of religious tolerance

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani poses in Erbil with Christian leaders, Sept. 25, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Bishops to PM Barzani: Kurdistan Region is the only place in Iraq where Christians live in peace

Amir Othman, Manager of Religious Coexistence Department of Kurdistan Region Government Ministry of Endowment (Photo: K24)

Kurdistan

Vast majority of Iraq’s remaining Christians live in Kurdistan Region: KRG Official

KRG PM Masrour Barzani is pictured giving a speech at the ceremony of announcing Soran as an autonomous administration, Sept. 14, 2021. (Photo: Erbil Governorate/Faceook)

Kurdistan

Islamic Scholars' Union of Kurdistan plays remarkable role in promoting ‘moderate ideology’, ‘peaceful coexistence’, says PM Barzani

Masoud Barzani (Right), with the Patriarch Mar Awa III, Spt. 14. 2021. (Photo: Barzani Head Quarter)

Kurdistan

New Eastern Assyrian Church patriarch thanks Masoud Barzani 'for supporting and protecting coexistence and harmony'

Afghans, from the Hazara ethnic minority studying at the prestigious "hawza" seminary that trains Shiite clergy, pray in their room in the holy city of Najaf, Aug. 29, 2021. (Photo: Ali Najafi/AFP)

Iraq

Afghan Hazaras studying in Iraq fear return home to Taliban rule

Masoud Barzani (Right), and Patriarch Mar Awa III. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan beacon of peaceful coexistence, religious freedom, says Masoud Barzani

The inauguration of the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. (Photo: social media)

Kurdistan

Assyrian Church of the East Patriarch praises religious freedom in Kurdistan

Mar Awa III (left), newly inaugurated Catholicos Patriarch the Assyrian Church of the East, shakes hands with Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, Sept. 13, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan Region Presidency Media Office)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region president asks Christians to stay in Iraq, hailing ‘beautiful tableau of diversity’

Shia Muslim men take part in a ritual ahead of Arbaeen, which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the seventh-century killing of Imam Hussein, Oct. 5, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)

Iraq

Iraq caps Arbaeen foreign pilgrim numbers at 40,000

Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim, who passed away on September 3, 2021. (Photo: Archive)

Iraq

Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim passes away

French President Emmanuel Macron tours the Al-Nuri Mosque in Iraq's second city of Mosul, in the northern Nineveh province, August 29, 2021. (Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Iraq

French president visits historic religious sites in Baghdad, Nineveh