Kurds
‘Daughters of Kobani’ tells story of all-women Kurdish combat units who fought IS
By Joseph Hammond — February 16, 2021
(RNS) — 'This was a movement with religious freedom and multiethnic governance with women at the center,' said the book's author, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
Aid workers Jessica and Jeremy Courtney on the fallout from Trump’s Syria moves
By Roxanne Stone — October 22, 2019
(RNS) — 'They were refugees, they did what the world wanted them to do. They went back home, they tried to rebuild and then we just opened the gates for more terror to come back again into their lives after they were trying to rebuild.'
Christian aid groups vow to stay to help after US sudden withdrawal from Syria
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 22, 2019
(RNS) — Christian aid organizations in Syria have sprung into action in response to the new conflict in the region and are vowing to stay with the Kurds as the crisis grows.
On Sukkot, think of the Kurds
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 17, 2019
(RNS) — While, as Tom Petty sang, we don’t have to live like refugees, we do have to remember what it means to live like a refugee.
Pompeo’s ‘Christian leader’ speech goes only as far as Trump allows
By Eric Atcheson — October 16, 2019
(RNS) — It takes a strong sense of compartmentalization to square Christianity’s ethical demands for truth-telling, integrity and human rights with the Trump White House’s elastic relationship with the truth.
Turkish attack on Syria endangers a remarkable democratic experiment by the Kurds
By James L. Gelvin — October 11, 2019
(The Conversation) — In a region where religion and politics are often intertwined, the Kurdish state is secular, and the current conflict threatens to end one of the only such democracies in the Middle East.
In Turkey, suspicion of US clouds case of pastor Andrew Brunson
By Umar Farooq — July 28, 2018
ISTANBUL, Turkey (RNS) — For many in Turkey, Brunson's case has little to do with his faith or his work as a missionary, and everything to do with how Washington addresses the concerns of Ankara.
Clinton: Islamic State ‘wiping out Christians’ is genocide
By Reuters — December 30, 2015
She said it was the word for "deliberately destroying lives and wiping out the existence Christians and other religious minorities."
‘I’ll warm myself on fire of revenge’: Hatred hangs in ruins of Iraq’s Sinjar
By Reuters — November 19, 2015
Islamic State militants overran Sinjar last year, purging its Yazidi population -- with the collaboration of Sunni residents who once lived in peace with their Yazidi neighbors.
East-West Travelblog: From ‘atheist’ to ‘Christian’ over breakfast
By Kimberly Winston — August 27, 2015
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) City officials would have us believe all is harmony in Music City. But with the country's largest community of Iraqi Kurds and sizable groups of Latinos, Somalis and Bhutanese moving into "the Buckle of the Bible Belt" that isn't always the case.
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