ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi refugee ... The desecration of the Quran sparked angry protests in Iraq and Muslim countries. Iraqi protesters stormed Stockholm ...

While the religion news cycle in the U.S. has been dominated lately with tensions between church and state (or at least a Trump administration), in Sweden religion news has centered on a different ...

The action by Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant, set off protests across the Muslim world in 2023. He had received death threats, his lawyer said. By Christina Anderson and Amelia Nierenberg ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man known for his controversial acts of burning multiple copies of Islam's holy text, the Quran, has ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

An Iraqi man who staged Quran burnings in Sweden was shot dead hours before he was set to receive a verdict on Thursday in a trial tied to the desecrations of Islam’s holy book that drew ...

Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam's holy book in Sweden in 2023. Videos of the Quran burnings got worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in several ...

Commentators are speculating that his killing is a revenge attack for his protests. Salwan Momika protests outside a mosque in Stockholm on June 28, 2023, during the Eid al-Adha holiday.

ALBAWABA - Salwan Momika, the Iraqi refugee who burnt the holy Quran several times, was reportedly shot dead in Hovsjö in Södertälje in Sweden on Wednesday, local reports confirmed. Momika was ...

A man, confirmed as being Salwan Momika, was fatally shot in an apartment in Södertälje on Wednesday evening. Police have confirmed the death and launched a murder investigation. Prosecutor Rasmus ...