ICC Helps Displaced Iraqi Family Rebuild Their Business

September 5, 2019 — 09/05/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – When ISIS invaded Qeraqosh in 2014, Raid was forced to flee his home with his wife and two-year-old son. For the next three years,...

Bringing Hope to Iraq Through Chicken Farms

September 2, 2019 —

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09/02/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Before ISIS invaded in 2014, Qeraqosh was the flourishing...

DoD Warns of ISIS Resurgence

September 1, 2019 — 09/01/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Operation Inherent Resolve, a Pentagon initiative launched in 2014 to establish a coalition for the defeat of ISIS, has issued a quarterly report warning...

Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: August

August 30, 2019 —

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08/30/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – August marked the five-year anniversary of the Islamic State...

Does Silence Confirms ISIS Transition?

August 24, 2019 — 08/24/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Earlier this month, the media arm of the Islamic State (ISIS) announced that Abdullah Qardash has succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. No official follow up...

UAE Pledges to Rebuild Mosul Churches

August 22, 2019 — 08/22/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has pledged $50 million to UNESCO for the purpose of restoring holy and cultural sites in Mosul, an Iraqi...

ICC Supports Restaurant Rebuilding in Iraq

August 21, 2019 — 08/21/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Nassim and Ameer are two friends who owned a restaurant together in Qaraqosh, Iraq. When ISIS attacked in 2014, they were forced to flee,...

Iraqi Church Defaced by ISIS Rededicated

August 18, 2019 — 08/18/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – When ISIS invaded the Iraqi Christian city of Qeraqosh in 2014, they destroyed every symbol of Christianity that they found. The Church of Mar...

Basra Church Opens, but Where are the Christians?

August 14, 2019 — 08/14/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Basra’s Virgin Mary Chaldean Church last held a service in 2005, when most of its congregation fled the city because of violent persecution. This...

Iraq’s Christians Left Out of Judicial System

August 12, 2019 — 08/12/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Iraq’s legislature is currently considering a proposal which would require that Supreme Court decisions maintain the support of at least 3 of the 4...

Iraq’s Government Again Fails Christians

August 10, 2019 — 08/10/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Earlier this week, the Iraqi Army swept into the Nineveh Plains in an attempt to facilitate the withdrawal of the 30th Brigade of Hashid...

Iraqi Christians Remember Genocide

August 7, 2019 — 08/07/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Today marks the anniversary of the 1933 massacre of Iraqi Christians in Simele. Estimates of those killed vary between 600 and 3,000 men, women,...

Iraq Partially Recovers Embezzled Reconstruction Funds

August 6, 2019 — 08/06/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Iraq’s Integrity Commission has announced the recovery of 11 billion dinars ($838,355 USD) which had been allocated for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the...

Hashid Militia Violently Resists Iraqi Army in Nineveh Plains

August 5, 2019 — Attempt to Change Military Power Leads to Violence in Christian Areas of Iraq 08/05/19 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 5, 2019,...

Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: July

August 5, 2019 —

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08/05/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Iraq faced heavy international pressure during the month of...

Five-Year Anniversary of ISIS’s Rise

August 3, 2019 — 08/03/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Today marks the five-year anniversary of the invasion by the Islamic State into the Nineveh Governorate. The militants first entered Sinjar, home to the...