Nevertheless, Duya is one of more than 100 Kurdish women who have risked their lives to officially convert to Zoroastrianism over the past 18 months, after reading about the inherently feminist ...

Marked each year in the spring, Giving Day serves as a unique moment when members of the Kakai community come together to ...

but combines parts of Abrahamic faiths and Zoroastrianism. Francesco Lastrucci A Yazidi refugee child sits on a swing in Lalish, located in Iraq’s northern Kurdish mountains. Lalish is the ...

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We spoke to Peer Lukman the head of Kurdistan Zoroastrian Centre in Kurdistan Region about the increasing number of Kurds converting to their ancient religion and the effects ISIL has on the ...

By John Lee. The first phase of the restoration of Charsteen Cave, a major archaeological and touristic site in the Kurdistan Region, has been completed. The work, costing approximately $1 million, ...

Iraq's Office for Yazidi Abductee Affairs in Kurdistan has released updated ... which combines elements of Zoroastrianism and ...

The main organization active in rescuing Yazidi captives has been Iraqi Kurdistan’s Office of ... Sufi Islam and Zoroastrianism with ancient local traditions. In 2014, the Islamic State captured ...