Persecuted Women Suffer DisproportionatelyJune 11, 2017 — ICC Note 215 million Christians experience persecution in more than 50 countries, more than half of them are women. According to the organization, Christian Women Under Pressure for their Faith,...
Egypt’s Displaced Christians Struggle to Find Shelter and SecurityJune 7, 2017 — By Sandra Elliot 06/07/2017 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) - In February of 2017, approximately 355 Christian families were forced to flee the city of El-Arish, Egypt after a series...
Coptic Christians Carry Out God’s Command to “Love Your Enemies”June 6, 2017 — ICC Note While the Coptic Christian communities in Egypt are still recovering from the string of attacks that made martyrs of many, they have used their situation as a platform...
Christian Medical Student Accepted into Islamic Institution’s Residency Program Just Months After Discrimination ControversyJune 5, 2017 — ICC Note In Egypt, a Christian medical student was accepted into the residency program at Al-Azhar University, a highly esteemed Islamic Institution, after discrimination controversy just months earlier. This decision...
First Christian Student to be Publicly Accepted to Al-AzharJune 4, 2017 — ICC Note In a bold move Abanoub Guirguis Naeem, an Egyptian Christian, applied to Al-Azhar medical residency program. Al-Azhar University practices a centrist moderate Islam but recently its curriculum has...
Egypt Removes Security Chief of Minya ProvinceMay 31, 2017 — ICC Note After ISIS’s latest attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt, the Egyptian government removed the security chief in the province where the attack happened. The attacks on Coptic Christians...
Egyptian Government Struggles to decide next steps to protect its Christian populationMay 28, 2017 — ICC Note After four high profile attacks against Coptic Christians, the Egyptian government is struggling to come up with responses to tighten security. Egypt wants to keep its image as...
Giving Voice to Egypt’s Palm Sunday Bombings’ Survivors, Part 2May 27, 2017 — By Amy Penn 05/27/2017 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) visited three martyrs’ families from last month’s Palm Sunday church bombings in Egypt. We listened as...
Egyptian President calls security meeting in wake of attack on ChristiansMay 26, 2017 — ICC Note Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has called a security meeting in the wake of the deadly attack today against Coptic Christians traveling to a monastery to pray. This is...
Gunmen Kill at Least 35 Coptic Christians in EgyptMay 26, 2017 — 05/26/2017 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that multiple masked gunmen attacked a caravan of Coptic Christians traveling to the Monastery of St....
Bishop Kyrillos Samaan expresses his great joy in the midst of persecutionMay 25, 2017 — ICC Note In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Bishhop Kyrillos Samaan, expressed his great joy in the midst of the persecution Christians have recently faced in...
What will prevent violent radicalization in Egypt?May 23, 2017 — ICC Note After the bombing of two churches in April, the Egyptian government wants to prevent violent radicalization by forcing Islamic institutions to reform. The largest Islamic institution is Al-Azhar,...
48 Potential ISIS Members Suspected of Egyptian Church BombingsMay 22, 2017 — ICC Note In December 2016 and April 2017, ISIS suicide bombers attacked three Coptic churches in Cairo, Egypt. More than 70 people died in the attacks. Now, Egypt’s public prosecutor...
Christian women face double persecutionMay 20, 2017 — ICC Note According to News Busters the term ‘war on women’ is often used in our current political climate without acknowledging the war that is conducted against persecuted women abroad....
Giving Voice to Egypt’s Palm Sunday Bombings’ Survivors, Part 1May 20, 2017 — By Amy Penn 05/20/2017 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Ghattas Attallah wept as he recalled his son’s death. “The explosion occurred, the whole building shook, the glass smashed…I rushed...
The plight of IDPsMay 18, 2017 — ICC Note With the growing attention on the refugee crisis, it is easy to ignore the plight of those who cannot leave a war zone also known as Internally Displaced People (IDP)....
