ISIS militants have ruthlessly targeted Iraq's religious minorities ... chose the date on which Baghdad would be founded. Pagan mathematicians were invited to come and work," he says.

replies the wife of a soldier wounded in Iraq ... the religion that best matched his universalist vision was Wicca, a blend of witchcraft, feminism and nature worship with ancient pagan ...

Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city ... It destroys any non-Sunni religious sites, which it regards as pagan. By the end of July, the caliphate had seized Mosul's some 30 churches and monasteries ...

Experts assess the role that religion and politics will play in the new Iraq. Shiite Muslims– estimates say up to a million of them– clogged the roads into the Iraqi city of Karbala.

Satanists, Wiccans, witches and many other life-based religions fall under the umbrella term of Pagan. The main similarity between Pagan religions is their love for life and the world around them.

Religious freedom has sharply deteriorated in Iraq over the past year because of both the insurgency and violence targeting specific faiths, despite the U.S. military buildup intended to improve ...

"Extermination, emigration, and settlement of this community will bring tragic transformations to the Yazidi religion," she adds. The Yazidis have inhabited the mountains of northwestern Iraq for ...

Pagan beliefs incorporate a respect for nature, varying concepts of the divine and Pagan theology. The recognition of the divine in nature is at the heart of Pagan belief. Pagans are deeply aware ...