Iraq

On Sunday, Iran took credit for firing ballistic missiles near the U.S. consulate in Erbil, Iraq. Erbil is the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

An Iraqi woman who recently converted from Islam to Christianity was found murdered on March 7 after she posted a TikTok video about her new faith, according to a religious liberty watchdog.

The U.S. military launched defensive airstrikes against three facilities near the Iraq-Syria border on Sunday night.

After Pope Francis recently visited Iraq, it became clear by some of the media coverage just how little the press “gets religion." Still, this visit was full of meetings that mattered, such as the Pope’s meeting with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the leader of the Shiites in Iraq. This meeting took place in Najaf in what is called the “Plain of Ur”. In a statement issued after the meeting, the Ayatollah affirmed “his concern that Christian citizens [of Iraq] should live like all Iraqis in peace and security, and with their full constitutional rights.”

This year, despite the waning number of Christians in the country, the Iraqi government declared Christmas a recurring national holiday.

One Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need, has made it its mission to help war-torn Iraqi towns destroyed by ISIS rebuild.

Church leaders in Iraq are fearful that Christianity may not have much of a future in the country as declines in quality of life force people to flee.

Four Christian aid workers are reported to have gone missing while attempting to complete "administrative formalities" in Iraq.

After the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by the United States, Iran has struck back by firing missiles at Iraqi military bases housing Americans.

President Trump swiftly responded after pro-Iranian protestors surrounded and attempted to storm the U.S. embassy in Iraq.