Egypt’s Sisi Attends Coptic Christmas Mass for Second Straight Year

January 8, 2016 — ICC Note: President Sisi visited the Christmas celebration at the Saint Mark's Cathedral in Cairo again this year. His visit carries much symbolic weight in a country that remains deeply...

Surviving Nigeria’s Boko Haram

January 7, 2016 — ICC Note: Do you ever wonder what it's like to survive a Boko Haram attack? The following report tells of this experience in harrowing detail. Dalori is a displacement camp...

Counting Buhari’s Boko Haram Successes and Failres

January 7, 2016 — ICC Note: Since his December 24 comments asserting Boko Haram's defeat, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari continues to weather criticism from Nigerian and international media alike. That's because Boko Haram's terrorist...

Genocide: Christians Pay the Price for Inaction and Apathy

January 7, 2016 — ICC Note: As a slaughter of religious minorities - in many cases especially Christians - are being slaughtered by extremists organizations. The world is aware of the atrocities and yet...

Egypt Christians Celebrate Christmas Amid Tight Security

January 7, 2016 — ICC Note: As Coptic Christians in Egypt celebrate Christmas, the reality of persecution and violence against the community forms a worrying backdrop. Continued violence against Christians, kidnappings, and attacks on...

Sudanese Pastor Acquitted of Obstructing Church Demolition

January 6, 2016 — ICC Note: Sudanese authorities have released a pastor and the lawyer who has defended Christians in high-profile death penalty cases in the last few years. Pastor Hafiz Mengisto and Attorney...

Egypt’s Broad Blasphemy Law Gives Rise to Abuse

January 6, 2016 — ICC Note: Despite the changes implemented by President Sisi blasphemy remains a critical problem especially for Egyptian Christians. Even something as innocent as sharing a video of Islamic scholars debating...

Nigeria Court in Kano Sentences Cleric to Death for Blasphemy

January 6, 2016 — ICC Note: A Sharia court in Nigeria has sentenced a Sufi Muslim cleric to death by hanging for blasphemy, representing the first such sentencing in Nigeria according to that Islamic...

Chibok Girls Campaigners Slam Buhari for Boko Haram Claim

January 6, 2016 — ICC Note: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari continues to receive flack from all sides after claiming that the Nigerian military has "won the war" against Boko Haram. His latest group of...

Kenya’s Garissa University Reopens After Deadly al-Shabab Attack

January 5, 2016 — ICC Note: Kenya's Garissa University College has reopened in northeast Kenya more than nine months after suffering a horrific persecution attack in April where al-Shabaab militants separated Christians and Muslims,...

Possible Ban of Hijab ‘An Affront to Religious Freedom of Muslim Women’

January 5, 2016 — ICC Note: As Nigeria considers the possible of a ban of the hijab in order to fight Boko Haram terrorism, the country's Muslim leaders are seaking out in earnest about...

A Cold Wind Blows for Nigerians Made Homeless By Boko Haram

January 5, 2016 — ICC Note: Surviving a Boko Haram attack rarely ever represents the end of suffering for Nigerians, but merely the beginning, Millions of Nigerians displaced by the Islamist terror insurgency n...

Two Christians Killed, Others Injured in Assaults in Northeast Kenya, Coast.

January 4, 2016 — ICC Note: December was a tumultuous month for Christians in northeast Kenya. Militants from Somali-based terror group al-Shabaab carried out a variety of attacks from Mandera down the coast to...

Pastor Hacked to Death, Bible Study Members Poisoned in Eastern Uganda

January 2, 2016 — ICC Note: Throughout isolated pockets of Uganda where Islamic majorities predominate, converts to Christ often face the most difficult brands of persecution. The following Morning Star report tells of the...

Nigeria: Presidency Denies Plan to Ban Hijab

January 1, 2016 — ICC Notes: After claiming to be open to the possibility of banning hijabs because of suicide attacks, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and his staff are reportedly stepping back from his...

Sudan: Attack Aftermath – Army, RSF Sweep Darfur’s Jebel Marra

January 1, 2016 — ICC News: Sudan's upsurge in attacks on the Darfur region continue to bear horrifying witness accounts of atrocities and attacks on civilians. Darfur is remembered for a brutal genocide President...