Threat of ISIS on Border Raises Iraq to High Alert

February 22, 2019 — 02/22/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – The fight against ISIS in Syria’s village of Baghouz has led militants to attempt to flee across the border into Iraq. The country’s military...

Security Challenges Impact Iraqi Christians Return

February 16, 2019 — 02/16/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – The security situation in previously held ISIS territory continues to remain fluid, impacting rebuilding efforts and causing Christian returnees to again leave their homes...

Spiritual and Community Development Needed in Iraq

February 2, 2019 — 02/02/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Christian leaders in Iraq are increasingly stressing how rebuilding the Christian presence in the country should take a multi-prong approach related to the material, spiritual,...

Ayatollah Asks UN to Investigate Violence Against Mosul’s Christians

January 29, 2019 — 1/29/19 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is regarded as the spiritual leader for Iraq's Shia Muslims and one of the most senior Shia clerics in the Islamic world....

Basic Life Necessities Missing in Nineveh Plains

January 26, 2019 — 01/26/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – On Saturday, the governors of two Christian towns in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains warned that a lack of basic life necessities are causing citizens to relocate...

Iraqi Christian Village Withstands Turkish Airstrikes

January 17, 2019 — 01/17/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – The Amedi district in northern Kurdistan was bombed by Turkey 98 times during the past year, killing at least 12 people, according to the Kurdish...

Iraqi Curriculum Issues Veiled Threat Against Christian Women

January 15, 2019 —

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01/15/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Questions persist throughout Iraq regarding whether ISIS is truly defeated or will...

Sale of Churches Sparks Controversy in Iraq

January 8, 2019 — 01/08/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – The sale of churches and potential corruption regarding the resulting funds has sparked fresh controversy in Iraq. This comes as three churches have recently been...

Muslims Join Christians in Appealing Church Demolition

January 3, 2019 — 01/03/2019 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Iraqi authorities have marked the Chaldean Catholic Church of Divine Wisdom, located in Baghdad, for demolition as part of a redevelopment program. This program seeks...

Iraq’s Grand Mufti Forbids Christmas

December 29, 2018 — 12/29/2018 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – The joyful news that Iraq’s Cabinet officially declared Christmas a national holiday just in time for the celebrations was dampened on Thursday when Iraq’s Grand Mufti...

Iraq’s Christians Ask, Where Shall We Reunite?

December 25, 2018 —

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12/25/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – “Merry Christmas and happy New Year,” Mazin, a Christian from Mosul displaced...

Iraqi Curriculum Incites Violence Towards Religious Minorities

December 23, 2018 — 12/23/2018 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Archbishop Louis Raphaël I Sako of Iraq’s Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon has asked the Ministry of Education to review offensive statements which exist within the curriculum....

Rural Iraq Devastated by ISIS

December 16, 2018 — 12/16/2018 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Amnesty International has released a new report describing how the Islamic State (ISIS) used a scorched earth policy to devastate rural Iraq. This tactic, combined with...

Basra Christians Slowly Abandon the City

December 14, 2018 — 12/14/2018 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – According to a publication by the Barnabas Fund, an estimated one Christian family a month is fleeing Iraq’s southern city of Basra. It is estimated that...

Mosul Experiences Reconstruction Setback

December 13, 2018 — 12/13/2018 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Iraq’s Endowment of the Christians, Yazidis, Sabeans, and Mandeans has requested that these groups transfer their properties in Old Mosul so that they can be permanently...

Ongoing Christian Persecution Mars Iraq’s One-Year Military Defeat of ISIS

December 9, 2018 — Displaced Christians Worried About Continued ISIS Presence and Ideology in Nineveh Plains 12/09/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Today, International Christian Concern marks the one-year anniversary of the declared...