Tag: iraq

In her new book, “They Say We Are Infidels,” Belz writes with authority about Iraq’s history, politics and culture

A coalition of more than 50 religious leaders, led by mostly conservative Catholic, evangelical and Jewish activists, is calling on President Obama to sharply escalate military action against Islamic extremists in Iraq.

As he dispatches a top aide to war-torn Iraq this week, Pope Francis made his most impassioned plea yet for the world to halt the “slaughter” of Christians and other religious minorities by Islamic extremists.

After reading Zechariah 9:9-12 in my new favorite devotional bible called The Voice Bible, I realized the lectionary passage this week provided my prayer for the escalating violence and the renewed war in Iraq.

Today at 5 p.m. volunteers from the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane will gather on the corner of Division and North River Drive to show their opposition to U.S. intervention in Iraq.

The militant group that exploded on to the scene in Iraq this year has been carefully cataloging its list of brutalities over recent years in an annual report published online, according to a think tank that has analyzed the latest publication.

Singer-songwriter Jason Moon is an Iraq War veteran who uses science, humor, storytelling to tell his personal experience in a 90 minute entertaining and educational message about how returning post-traumatic stress disorder and military sexual trauma affects veterans, families and entire communities, according to a press release.