Dem Senator Urges Egypt To Free Cleric Who Called For Murder Of Israelis Jake Smith on August 3, 2023 Democratic Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin called on the Egyptian government last…
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday and set it on fire in protest against the expected burning of a Koran in Sweden. The demonstration…
(Reuters) – Russia on Saturday demanded the immediate release of a senior Orthodox cleric detained in Kyiv on suspicion of inflaming religious hatred and justifying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A…
AMMAN (Reuters) – Lebanon’s top Christian cleric called on Sunday for the judge struggling to investigate the Beirut port explosion to be able to pursue his work and get help…
Lorenzo Prieto on January 27, 2023 According to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, radical Islamic cleric Shaikh Abdullah Faisal was convicted Thursday on several counts of supporting terrorism. The New…
DUBAI (Reuters) – A top dissident Iranian Sunni cleric on Friday denounced as un-Islamic Iran’s alleged use of forced confessions to convict detained protesters, as weekly demonstrations continued in the…
DUBAI (Reuters) – A prominent Sunni cleric said on Friday it was wrong to charge protesters with capital offences as renewed demonstrations shook Iran’s restive southeast in the third month…
DUBAI (Reuters) -Senior Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, a spiritual leader for the Muslim Brotherhood and defender of Arab Spring revolts, died on Monday at age 96, according to a…
By John Davison, Parisa Hafezi and Laila Bassam BAGHDAD (Reuters) – When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week,…
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) -A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 18 people including a high-profile pro-Taliban…
By Haider Kadhim BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq’s judiciary will resume its activities on Wednesday after powerful Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his supporters to withdraw from outside its headquarters, the…
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s top Christian cleric said on Sunday it is “shameful” that politicians have yet to form a new cabinet nearly three months after elections, blaming their chronic feuding…