I hope our grassroots work will push the leaders, but I don’t know.” His uncertainty is warranted for Iraq as well. Under the ...

These nine quota seats are determined exclusively by votes cast for candidates belonging to the respective communities.

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States will not allow an Iran-style religious government to take hold in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. He also said Syria and others in the region ...

While most Religion Dispatches readers are familiar with the growing influence of Christian Zionists and their close relationship with Israel, few are probably aware of the penetration of American ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- In a rally reminiscent of those opposing the war in Vietnam, Roman Catholic Cardinal Francis George, United Methodist Church Bishop C. Joseph Sprague and other religious leaders took ...

DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Witnesses said the attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran toward the crowd shouting Islamic slogans. DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — The annual parade by Assyrian Christians in ...

Nearly 1.3 million members of the security forces and more than 26,500 internally displaced people are eligible to vote.

President Bush has worked hard to get the House and Senate to support him on the question of Iraq, in the hopes that a unified Congress will help him influence the rest of the country. Bush has given ...