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‘You are not alone!’ Pope makes final appeal to Iraqi Christian community
By Claire Giangravé — March 7, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On his last full day in Iraq, Francis told Christians to forgive their oppressors, the better to put their energy toward restoring their country.
Rebuilding with US funds, Iraq’s minority religious communities still await security
By Jack Jenkins — July 13, 2018
(RNS) — U.S. evangelical leaders have applauded a move to fund the restoration of Iraqi religious minority communities through USAID. But most parties involved say the real vexing issue is security.
ISIS’s intriguing silence about Donald Trump’s approach to Muslims
By Tom Heneghan — March 17, 2017
PARIS (RNS) With his anti-Muslim rhetoric and planned travel bans, you’d think President Trump would be a favorite target for Islamic State’s propaganda. Well, think again.
ISIS issues hit list of U.S. churches for holiday attacks
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 23, 2016
(USA Today) The Islamic State is urging its followers to attack U.S. churches and has published names and addresses of thousands of prospective targets, according to a report in the news website Vocativ.
Suspect in Christmas market massacre was meant to be deported
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 21, 2016
BERLIN (USA Today) — A massive manhunt is underway Wednesday for the driver of a truck that was intentionally crashed into a Berlin Christmas market, leaving 12 people dead and 48 injured.
Attacker at Indonesian church injures priest
By Jerome Socolovsky — August 28, 2016
MEDAN, Indonesia -- Indonesian police are investigating a suspected terror attack by a knife-wielding assailant on a priest during Mass at a Catholic church in northern Sumatra.
Trump suggests ‘profiling’ Muslims
By Jerome Socolovsky — June 19, 2016
Donald Trump, who has proposed a moratorium on Muslim immigration into the United States and possible surveillance of mosques, is now talking about "profiling" Muslims as a response to terrorism.
Hackers add rainbows, gay pride slogans to ISIS accounts
By Jerome Socolovsky — June 18, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — The Anonymous hacker collective has launched a campaign to add rainbow flags and gay pride slogans to Islamic State Twitter accounts in response to the Orlando gay dance club attack.
Obama vows US will destroy Islamic State — but not at the cost of our values
By Gregory Korte — December 6, 2015
He had harsh language for Islamic State "thugs and killers, vowing to fight "by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless." But he also stressed American values, concluding. "Freedom is more powerful than fear."
ISIS, ISIL, Daesh — explaining the many names for terrorists
By Lauren Markoe — November 17, 2015
(RNS) The terrorist organization murdering people across the Middle East and now Europe is known by several names and acronyms. What do they mean, and why use one over another?
ISIS versus the West: A clash of civilizations? (COMMENTARY)
By John Farmer — February 23, 2015
(RNS) To a layman it sure as hell looks like a collision of civilizations -- specifically between the advocates of a malignant interpretation of Islam and a Christian West which, a millennium ago, produced the Crusades.
Poll: 1 in 4 Americans say Islamic State represents true Islam
By Aamer Madhani — February 12, 2015
(RNS) Forty-five percent of the senior Protestant pastors surveyed say the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, "gives a true indication of what an Islamic society looks like."
ANALYSIS: Iraq’s Sunni insurgents listed their crimes in annual report
By Jim Michaels — June 18, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The report doesn't trace violence only. It also tracks "apostates repented," a reference to winning over fellow Sunnis in areas that the group has seized.
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