Armenia, Azerbaijan Engage in Legal Battles over Artsakh Conflict at U.N. Court

May 2, 2024 — 5/2/2024 Armenia/Azerbaijan (International Christian Concern) — Delegates of Armenia and Azerbaijan are engaged in legal battles over the Artsakh conflict, arguing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the...

Armenia Cedes Territory Near Border to Azerbaijan in Attempt to Normalize Relations

May 2, 2024 — 5/1/2024 Armenia/Azerbaijan (International Christian Concern) — Amid ongoing tensions after the fall of Artsakh in September 2023, the Armenian government agreed to cede territory to Azerbaijan along the border in...

Tensions Remain as Negotiations Stall over the Armenia-Azerbaijan Border

April 3, 2024 — 4/3/2024 Armenia/Azerbaijan (International Christian Concern) – Tensions in the South Caucasus remain high as negotiations stall over the disputed territory along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. Despite the ethnic-Armenian forces within the Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh...

NATO Secretary General Concludes Visit to South Caucasus Armenia

March 28, 2024 — 3/28/2024 Armenia (International Christian Concern) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg concluded his official visit to the South Caucasus region by meeting with President Vahagn Khachaturyan and Prime Minister Nikol...

Azerbaijani President Announces That Lasting Peace with Armenia Is Near

March 22, 2024 — 03/22/2024 Azerbaijan (International Christian Concern) – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated during a press conference that negotiations with Armenia are approaching a settlement. The remarks occurred after a meeting between...

Azerbaijan’s Uncontested Election

March 7, 2024 — 03/07/2024 Azerbaijan (International Christian Concern) – Azerbaijan hosted presidential elections in early February, which resulted in the re-election of President Ilham Aliyev. Initially scheduled for October 2025, Aliyev ordered officials...

Homeland Lost

February 26, 2024 — 02/26/2024 Artsakh (International Christian Concern) – Until October 2023, more than 100,000 ethnic Armenian Christians lived in Artsakh, also known as Nagorno- Karabakh, a breakaway enclave internationally recognized as a part...

Armenian Christian Prisoner Hakop Gochumyan Trial Result Still Unknown

January 27, 2024 — 01/27/2024 Iran (International Christian Concern) – Armenian Christian Hakop Gochumyan is still being detained in Iran. Last summer Hakop, an Armenian citizen, traveled to Iran to visit his wife Elisa’s...

Armenians Navigate the Horrors of the 2023 Artsakh War

December 6, 2023 — 12/06/2023 Armenia (International Christian Concern) — It has been more than two months since Azerbaijan seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023. The military take-over followed nine months of brutal blockade...

Azerbaijan Raises Flag Over Nagorno-Karabakh as Final Armenians Leave

October 17, 2023 — 10/17/2023 Artsakh (International Christian Concern) – The Azerbaijani military raised their flag over the former Artsakh capital, Stepanakert, with a special visit from Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev who attended the...

Armenian ‘Angels’ Unite to Aid Refugees as Count Reaches 90,000

October 2, 2023 — 10/02/2023 Armenia (International Christian Concern) – As ethnic Armenian Christians continue to pour into Armenia proper from Artsakh after Azerbaijan’s rapid take-over, support for the Armenian refugees is coming in...

Tens of Thousands of Christian Armenian Refugees Pour in from Artsakh

September 26, 2023 — 09/26/2023 Artsakh (International Christian Concern) – Now that Azerbaijan is in control of Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenian: Artsakh), tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians are beginning to pour into Armenia from Artsakh. ...

The Fate of Armenian Christians Uncertain in Artsakh

September 25, 2023 — 09/25/2023 Artsakh (International Christian Concern) – As security forces of the self-autonomous region of Artsakh (also called Nagorno-Karabakh) hand over their weapons to Russian peacekeepers, it seems that a decades...

Azerbaijan Claims Control of Artsakh

September 21, 2023 — 09/21/2023 Artsakh (International Christian Concern) – Azerbaijan announced a military operation into Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenian: Artsakh) on the night of Sept. 18, after nine months of a brutal blockade on the...

Artsakh Blockade Partially Lifted, But Many Still Suffer

September 15, 2023 — 09/15/2023 Artsakh (International Christian Concern) – On September 9, in a step toward obtaining aid, authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh, known locally as Artsakh, were forced under threat of starvation to come to...

Humanitarian Crisis Lingers for Armenian Christians

August 25, 2023 — Christians Suffer under Blockade, 'Genocide" in Artsakh By Linda Burkle, Ph.D., ICC Fellow With many conflicts globally, most prominently the Russian war on Ukraine, there has been little attention given...