Iraqi PM Calls for Return of ChristiansAugust 13, 2020 — 08/13/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Over the weekend, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi called for the return of Iraqi Christians to their home. With ISIS declared militarily defeated, Al-Kadhimi...
Beirut Explosion Sends Shockwaves Through IraqAugust 10, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By Claire Evans" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1597066533194{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="99675" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 08/10/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Last week’s catastrophe in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut...
Iraqi Christians Mourn Genocide AnniversaryAugust 7, 2020 — 08/07/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Today is the anniversary of the 1933 Simele Massacre, when over 65 Assyrian Christian villages in Iraq were targeted and thousands either killed or...
Iraq’s Militias Threaten Christians’ FutureAugust 7, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By Emma Reeves" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1596797814989{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="96317" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 08/07/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The defeat of ISIS in Iraq came at the...
Iraq Releases Mosul CommanderAugust 4, 2020 — 08/04/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Nineveh’s former operations commander, Lieutenant General Mahdi al-Gharawi, was released from prison on Saturday according to Iraq’s state media. He is one of the...
Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: JulyAugust 3, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By Claire Evans" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1596462937538{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="99676" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 08/03/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – COVID-19 continues exacerbating the challenges already faced by the...
Sixth Anniversary of ISIS GenocideAugust 3, 2020 — 08/03/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – August marks the sixth anniversary of ISIS’ capture of Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, igniting the start of their genocide of against Christians and Yazidis. Hundreds...
Iraqi Christians Victim to Land-GrabbingJuly 30, 2020 — 07/30/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) –Iraq’s Nahla Valley, located within the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is a historically Assyrian Christian area that has long been subjected to land-grabbing attempts. The...
Iraqi Officials Met on IDP IssuesJuly 27, 2020 — 07/27/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – On July 26th, the Iraqi Minister of Immigrants and IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons), Chaldean Christian Evan Faeq Yakoub Jabro, met with the President of...
ISIS Victims Struggle for CompensationJuly 12, 2020 — 07/12/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Three years after the military defeat of ISIS in Iraq, challenges continue to swirl regarding compensation for victims of those impacted by the extremists....
Iraqi Christians Evacuate Following Turkish AirstrikesJuly 4, 2020 — 07/04/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Since the beginning of Turkey’s airstrike operations in northern Iraq, nine of the 11 Christian villages in the Zakho district have reportedly evacuated. The...
Iraq Works on Interfaith DiscourseJuly 2, 2020 — 07/02/2020 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – The Institute for the Study of Religious Diversity is attempting to change Iraq’s discourse toward religious minorities and recently published its first curricula. Established...
Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: JuneJuly 1, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By Claire Evans" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1593621248513{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="99676" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 07/01/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – June marks the anniversary of ISIS’s capture of Mosul,...
Iraqi Christians Worry Over Militia Power StruggleJune 29, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"] Iraq’s Central Government and Militias Clash as Christians Watch in Apprehension 06/29/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the...
In the Shadow of ISISJune 26, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By Claire Evans" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1589987128626{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="116523" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 06/26/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Today, though the threat of ISIS has been mostly eradicated,...
When the Smoke Clears, What Remains?June 22, 2020 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By Claire Evans" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1592833069399{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="117042" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 06/22/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Once again, the crops of Iraqi Christian farmers have...
