STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has died, a judge in Stockholm said Thursday. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city.

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 ...

A man was murdered in Sweden last week by Islamists. What was the response of the authorities? To make it harder for people such as him to get on the wrong side of the extremists in the first place.

Salwan Momika, 38, was an Assyrian Catholic who fled to Sweden several years ago. In a horrific and targeted killing, an Iraqi refugee who burnt the Quran in Sweden was shot dead in his apartment on ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

An Iraqi man who publicly burned the Quran several times in Sweden has been killed, according to Swedish authorities. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city. Salwan ...

Swedish authorities are investigating the apparent slaying of an Iraqi anti-Islam activist known for burning the Quran and said the killing could have connections to another country. Sweden’s prime ...

An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said Thursday. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi figure behind the controversial Quran burnings in Sweden, has been found dead following a shooting incident in Sodertalje, near Stockholm, according to judicial sources. The ...

STOCKHOLM — Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off protests in Sweden and several Muslim countries when he burned a Quran in Stockholm in 2023, has been killed, the Swedish Prosecution ...