Date of source: Sunday, November 10, 2019
Regardless of how the political situations in Lebanon and Iraq may end, there is no doubt that the movements occurring there have come to represent an important transition in the consciousness of their citizens. They have come to question the competency of confessional forms of governance that...
Date of source: Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Early Saturday morning, two oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Biqayq and Khurayṣ, were attacked by drones, temporarily halting oil production and slowing down natural gas production at the facilities. Together, these two facilities produce 9.5 million barrels every day, over half of Saudi Arabia’s...
Date of source: Thursday, March 9, 2017
On Thursday, Iraqi president Fūʾad Maʿṣūm welcomed a delegation from the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt and the world. The delegate was headed by Anbā Anṭūniyyūs, Bishop of the Seat of Jerusalem and The Near East, in his first visit to Iraq in 23 years. The purpose of the delegation was...
Date of source: Sunday, November 16, 2008
In Iraq, the persecution of Christians continues and many Christian families are leaving Mosul for Baghdad while there are estimates that a third of the Christian population has left the country.
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Dr. Youssef al-Qaradawi issued a Fatwá at the Journalists? Syndicate on August 31 that kidnapping American [civilians] and killing them is a duty so that they would leave Iraq immediately. He also said that there is no difference between an American civilian and an American soldier because the...
Date of source: Saturday, March 1, 2003
The author is replying to the fatwa published by Sheikh Al-Qaradawi in which he says that people who will die defending Iraq against foreign invasion are martyrs. She asks him about the situation in 1991 when Iraq attacked Kuwait and about what his stand would have been if it had been his land that...
Date of source: Friday, August 27, 1999
Beirut: Iraq’s Catholic Patriarch said yesterday that Pope John Paul might visit Iraq during the first week of December.