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 ...

On January 29, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden who had gained notoriety by publicly burning copies of the Quran, was shot dead in his apartment in Stockholm. The killing took place in ...

Many in Sweden are already pointing fingers at Tehran for last week’s murder of Islam critic and Quran burner Salwan Momika in Södertälje ... fatwa — a religious bounty like the one that ...

The Stockholm district court was to have published its verdict against Momika and 50-year-old Salwan Najem the following day, but postponed it until Monday after Momika's killing. "There is a wide ...

Salwan Momika. Najem received a suspended sentence and a fine. The court ruled that while criticism of religion is allowed, the protests expressed contempt for Muslims. The burnings strained ...

Days after the killing of Iraqi anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika, far-right Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan was spotted buring a copy of the Quran. The controversial politician was ...

This all came in after Iraqi activist, Salwan Momiko was shot dead at his apartment in Sweden during a live TikTok video. Momika was first noticed when he first burnt the Quran and then repeated ...

The ruling comes less than a week after Najem’s fellow campaigner, Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, was shot dead in an apartment right before he was due to receive his verdict in a parallel case.

Salwan Momika burned Qurans at a slew of protests, was guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden two years ago, has been shot dead, Swedish authorities said. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images/File via ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who caused outrage by burning copies of Quran in Sweden in 2023, was shot dead in the capital city of Stockholm, CNN, citing Swedish authorities, confirmed the news.

Momika, who arrived in Sweden from Iraq in 2018, had earlier called his 'Quran-burning protests' as his opposition against the holy book, because he believed the Quran 'should be banned in the ...