Libyan Church Case Delayed, Eviction Looming

August 2, 2021 — 08/02/2021 Libya (International Christian Concern) – Following a July 26 court hearing, the status of the Union Church of Tripoli has been delayed until August 23. The church, which was...

Libyan Church Faces Eviction After 51 Years

July 9, 2021 — 07/09/2021 Libya (International Christian Concern) – After years of back and forth on their worship facilities, Union Church in Tripoli is facing eviction from their building as early as August 27...

Turkey’s International Military Involvement

June 14, 2021 — 06/14/2021 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – Turkey continues to increase its military involvement in the Middle East and Caucasus regions. Turkey has been accused of transporting Turkish-made military drones and equipment...

Libyan Conflict Puts Christians in the Crosshairs

June 24, 2020 —

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06/24/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The vast deserts of Libya are mostly empty of...

Libya Army Captures Notorious Terrorist

May 3, 2020 — 05/03/2020 Libya (International Christian Concern) – The Libyan National Army has reportedly captured Egyptian terrorist Mohammed al-Senbekhti (also known as Abu Khaled Mounir), who is believed to have been the...

Syrian Conflict Takes Aim at Armenians

February 17, 2020 — 02/17/2020 Syria (International Christian Concern) – The Syrian Parliament recognized the massacre of Armenian Christians in 1915 as genocide on Thursday, a recognition which many recognize as political maneuvering against...

Will Libya Reconcile?

January 21, 2020 — 01/21/2020 Libya (International Christian Concern) – This past Sunday, the warring parties in Libya attended a reconciliation conference hosted in Berlin by the German government. The draft conclusions of the...

Libya Announces Site of 21 Christian Martyrs

January 11, 2020 — 01/11/2020 Libya (International Christian Concern) – Libya has announced the exact location where 21 Christians were martyred by ISIS on Sirte Beach. Officials had located the site in October 2017,...

Is Libya Refusing to Bury Christians?

June 29, 2019 — 06/29/2019 Libya (International Christian Concern) – An internal United Nations report leaked to the Irish Times alleges that the bodies of Christians who died in the overcrowded Zintan detention center...

Libya Uses Christians as Political Tool in the Conflict

April 28, 2019 — 04/28/2019 Libya (International Christian Concern) – On April 19th, the Libyan Council of Ministers adopted a resolution which recognized the Ottoman Empire’s violence against Armenian Christians as a genocide. The...

Libya’s Christian Minority Caught in Crossfire Between LNA and GNA

April 13, 2019 — 04/13/2019 Libya (International Christian Concern) Libya has long waged attacks on civilians, committing mass crimes against humanity. The country has been torn by violence, political instability, and power struggles since...

Libya Unearths Mass Grave of Christians

December 27, 2018 — 12/27/2018 Libya (International Christian Concern) – According to the Libyan Express, Libya’s Interior Ministry has located the remains of the 34 Ethiopian Christians executed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in...

Families of 21 Coptic Martyrs Mark Three Year Anniversary Since Their Deaths

February 15, 2018 — Church of the Martyrs Commemorates Anniversary, Ready to Receive Remains 02/15/18 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – As of today, the third anniversary of the mass beheading of 21 Coptic...

ISIS Militant Confesses to 2015 Massacre of Coptic Christians

December 8, 2017 — ICC Note: Libyan authorities have released a confessional video of one of the ISIS militants involved in the 2015 massacre of 21 Egyptian Copts. Hisham al-Awkli’s history with ISIS is...

Concern Increases That ISIS Will Resurrect Itself in Middle East, North Africa

November 17, 2017 — ICC Note: Some experts are predicting that Libya may serve as a model on what to expect from ISIS in other countries; namely, that ISIS will find a way to...

ISIS’s Sexual Enslavement of Religious Minorities Attracted Domestic Abusers as Recruits

October 11, 2017 — ICC Note: According to a report published by the Henry Jackson Society, terrorists such as ISIS are using slaves to fund their activities and to attract potential recruits, many of...