Human Rights in the World
IRAQ: Strike injures two Iraqi Kurdish reporters in Sinjar CPJ (10.07.2024) – The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Turkish and Iraqi authorities to investigate after a suspected Turkish strike injured two Iraqi Kurdish reporters. The two Çira TV...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAQ: Less then 50 Christian families back in Mosul since 2014 Ten years after the ISIS occupation: less than 50 Christian families have returned to Mosul by Gianni Valente Agenzia Fides (10.06.2024) – Mosul, ten years later. It was June 10, 2014 when the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAQ: Five big ISIL bombs found hidden in Mosul’s al-Nuri Mosque Iraqi authorities requested UNESCO halt all reconstruction operations at al-Nuri Mosque and evacuate the entire complex until the devices are disarmed. Aljazeera (29.06.2024) – Five large bombs...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAQ: Court tells Christian woman to convert to Islam Rudaw (10.06.2024) – A Christian woman whose mother converted to Islam when she was 15 was told by Iraqi authorities that she and her children should also convert. Iraq’s Personal Status Law, passed in 1959,...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAQ: Cardinal Sako back to Baghdad after a nine-month self-imposed exile He was warmly welcomed by a church packed with members of the country’s Christian minority on his first mass in Baghdad HRWF (15.04.2024) – On Wednesday 10 April, Cardinal Sako returned to...