Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al Abadi has said that Iraq’s military will defeat Islamic State forces “within weeks,” but that it will take longer to truly eradicate the jihadists’ presence in the Middle East.
Thousands of people from different faiths gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to participate in a prayer vigil after an attacker killed three people on Wednesday (March 22).
Some 400,000 Iraqis are facing food shortages while they are trapped in the Islamic State-controlled part of west Mosul amidst fighting, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said this week.
Prominent priest Canon Andrew White, known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” said that Christianity has practically been wiped out from the area of its birth.
Christians who were driven out of their homeland of Mosul, Iraq and surrounding areas by ISIS may be prevented from returning by a new generation of ISIS fighters.
A bus attack in northern Kenya during which Muslims shielded Christians from al-Shabab militants is the subject of a fictional film adaptation that focuses on religious integration and coexistence.