Families of Slain Coptic Christians in Libya Desire a Dignified Return, BurialOctober 10, 2017 — 10/10/17 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that families of the Copts killed by ISIS in Libya are preparing to place their deceased loved...
Libya Announces Arrest of ISIS Militants Who Beheaded 21 Copts in 2015September 29, 2017 — ICC Note: Egyptian Copts Christians, unable to support their families from their home area, often make a tumultuous journey into Libya in search of work. Libya is hardly a safe...
Coptic Christians Risk Their Lives for Employment in LibyaSeptember 4, 2017 — ICC Note: Libya is a common destination for Egyptians seeking employment, but life in Libya has become extremely dangerous as ISIS-affiliated militants continue to perpetuate violence. Most of the Coptic...
Potential Deadly Double-Team Against Christians in LibyaMarch 2, 2017 — ICC Note: Sources suggest that terrorist groups ISIS, also known as ISIL, and al-Qaeda are cooperating in southern Libya which could prove dangerous for minority Christian groups in that area....
Libya: Where Egyptian Christians Risk EverythingJanuary 12, 2017 — By Sandra Elliot 01/12/2017 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) - Christians in Egypt have learned to live despite. Wives have learned to sleep alone. Children have learned to step into...
Libya: Torture, Starvation, Deprivation – Life Inside IS Prisons in LibyaOctober 25, 2016 — ICC Note: Uncovered ISIS secret prisons in Libya have recently been uncovered in the fighting to oust the terrorist group from the region. Testimonies from former prisoners and the empty...
Another Christian woman sold as sex slave and forced to convert to Islam escapes from Islamic StateAugust 23, 2016 — ICC Note: Christians are always exposed to greater dangers and challenges when searching for peace and freedom. Captured women and children are more vulnerable to the threats of the terrorist...
Christian Migrants Kidnapped by Isis in Libya Kept as Sex Slaves After Forced Conversion to IslamJuly 1, 2016 — ICC Note: Christian migrants passing through Libya hoping to reach Europe share stories of beating, sexual enslavement and forced conversions at the hands of Islamic State militants along the way....
Boko Haram, Islamic State, and the Underlying Concerns for West AfricaMay 1, 2016 — ICC Note: Boko Haram and the Islamic State (IS) are theoretically aligned, but the actual and operational effects of this pact remain hard to trace. On the one hand, IS...
Libya: Egyptian Christians Arrested in Libya for Merely Carrying Christian BooksMarch 14, 2016 — ICC Note: ICC's Egypt Correspondent has received word that 4 Egyptian Christians were arrested in Libya for "proselytizing." This word is basically an overarching term used by by Radical Islamist...
Moroccan Officials Dismantle ISIS CellMarch 13, 2016 — ICC Note: (ICC's Algeria Correspondent) Moroccan authorities found weapons and ammunition in the possession of 3 people who pledged allegiance to ISIS leaders in Libya and Syria. They were planning...
ISIS Stronghold in Libya is Spilling Over Into Tunisia-Great Concern for Egypt, AlgeriaMarch 9, 2016 — ICC Note: Weak and failing governments in the Middle East and North Africa are the perfect breeding grounds for new ISIS strongholds. One such example has been in Libya. As...
Bombed, Burned, and Urinated On: Christianity & Churches Under IslamMarch 3, 2016 — ICC Note: By Emma Lane, Regional Manager for the Middle East: In a brilliant piece from the Gates Institute Website, scholar, Raymond Ibrahim made a very brief chronicling of Muslim Persecution of...
Whereabouts of 8 Kidnapped Coptic Christians Remain a Mystery for EgyptFebruary 25, 2016 — ICC NOTE: As we mourn the loss of the 21 Coptic Christians on the one year anniversary of their beheading's, there are those who wish to learn of the fate of eight...
US Air-Strikes in Libya As the Fight Against ISIS ShiftsFebruary 22, 2016 — ICC Note: Libya has become another powerful base for ISIS even as world powers discuss the new Libyan Unity government to bring back stability in the region. The ISIS stronghold...
Egypt’s Kidnapped Christians: Human Rights Group Demands AnswersFebruary 19, 2016 — ICC Note: The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedom has sent a public message to Libyan authorities demanded to know where its missing Christians are. The group appealed to Egyptian...
