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Syria’s Yazidi Community Faces the Future With Concern
28 Nov 2025 16:49 GMT
… Yazidi culture will cease to exist. He fears that their strict religious … abuses against religious and ethnic minorities, including the trafficking of Yazidi women … “divine religions”—meaning Christianity and Judaism but not the Yazidi faith.
“We …
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“Intent to Destroy”: Reflections on the Swedish Yazidi Genocide Case
24 Nov 2025 12:07 GMT
… children deprived of language, religion, and identity. It is … them from practising their Yazidi religion, compelled some of them … the assault on the Yazidi religious group formed part of … the suppression of Yazidi language and religion, the dissolution of …
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Christian, Jewish, Alevi and Yazidi communities face ongoing discrimination in Turkey: report
21 Nov 2025 09:24 GMT
… salutes toward a Jewish team.
Yazidi families in southeastern Turkey reported … desecration and physical assaults.
Meanwhile, religious expression in education came under … concludes that Turkey’s overall religious freedom climate remains “negative,” citing …
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United Nations: Kidnapping, torture and rape in Afrin, and the possibility that the "National Army" committed war crimes
20 Dec 2025 22:12 GMT
… women belonging to the Yazidi religious minority were also detained … also looted and destroyed religious and archaeological sites of … In April 2020, several Yazidi shrines and graveyards were … existence of the Yazidi community as a religious minority in …
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The Yazidi Temple in Hassakeh: Theological Storm or Political Fault Line?
29 Oct 2025 03:08 GMT
… temple had received approval from Yazidi religious authorities, and that its foundation … and local clergy, adhering to Yazidi religious curricula. He added that the … community centres lacking formal religious status.
Kurdish Yazidi scholar and advisor to …
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate, activist Nadia Murad discusses her fight against genocide, how religion is misused to justify violence
21 Oct 2025 20:12 GMT
… on Wednesday.
Murad survived the Yazidi genocide, which took place … happened to her as a Yazidi in the 2014 genocide. … she speaks with many different religious leaders and familiarizes herself … with the religions of different regions she …
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Kurdistan, Germany push aid project for Yazidi genocide survivors
19 Oct 2025 19:47 GMT
… a new
project to support Yazidi women who survived ISIS atrocities … stability, praising
its coexistence among religious, ethnic, and sectarian communities and …
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Religious holidays in Germany: Who gets the day off?
12 Oct 2025 07:11 GMT
… established decades ago, but religious demographics and expectations have evolved … acknowledges "the constitutionally protected religious freedom of the Muslim population … No preferential treatment
Abdassamad El-Yazidi, chairman of the Central Council …
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Between ritual and remembrance: Yazidis mark Ezi Feast
19 Dec 2025 15:51 GMT
… holds singular importance in Yazidi religious life.
As in … recovery remains incomplete, religious
observance has become … a Kurdish-speaking
religious minority whose ancestral … religious practice becomes an assertion of
existence.
Hadiya Shamo, of the Yazidi …
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President Barzani Extends Congratulations on the Occasion of the “Jama” Festival to Yazidi Sisters and Brothers
06 Oct 2025 11:57 GMT
… the “Jama” Festival to Yazidi Sisters and Brothers
ARK News … and solidarity among all religious and ethnic communities in … and ordeals endured by our Yazidi sisters and brothers, including … Kurdish Yazidis celebrate their religious festivals and occasions in …