The Kurdistan Region has embraced a genuinely pluralistic approach—bringing together Muslims, Christians, Yazidis, Jews, ...

Each year, Yazidis from around the world return to the Kurdistan Region to celebrate Red Wednesday at the holy Lalish Temple, where they offer prayers and light fires, a deeply rooted symbol in ...

The most important rituals take place at Lalish Temple in the mountains of Duhok, north of the Kurdistan Region, where Yazidis light candles and gather in prayer. In 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS ...

"It’s a bit surreal! I keep pinching myself to make sure I am really here, and also asking myself why it took so long to come ...

Malkaz Songulashvili, right, Georgia’s former Evangelical Baptist archbishop, sits alongside a cleric of the Yazidi faith inside ... separate spaces. Nobody prays together.

Pope Francis understood the vital role that Christianity and Islam can play in shaping our shared future — which is why he ...

After watching “her mother and brothers be marched off to their death,” Murad was taken captive and “traded from one ISIS fighter to another; forced to pray; forced to dress up and put make ...

World leaders send condolences after Pope's death Since the earliest days of his papacy, Pope Francis viewed the Middle East not only as the birthplace of civilisations and faiths, but as a region ...

Muslim Peshmerga soldiers fought alongside their Yazidi and Christian brothers-in-arms, each ready to face death so that mosques could sound the call for prayer, churches could ring their bells, ...