Iraqi Christians Fearful that New Tax Signals Upcoming Persecution

July 3, 2018 — Kurdish Regional Government Institutes a New Business Tax on Select Christian Neighborhoods 07/03/18 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on January 23, 2018,...

ISIS Resurfaces South of Nineveh Plains

July 2, 2018 — ICC Note: A recent series of kidnappings and killings have been claimed by ISIS in Salahuddin, a province which borders the traditional Christian Nineveh Plains. It is estimated that at...

Christian Neighborhood Singled Out for New KRG Regulation

July 1, 2018 — ICC Note: The Kurdish Regional Government has imposed a new business regulation affecting the Ankawa neighborhood in Erbil. The neighborhood is traditionally Christian, with most belonging to the Assyrian community....

Militia Violence Increases in Iraq as Christians Seek Solutions

June 29, 2018 — ICC Note: Iraq’s contested elections in May thrust the country into further instability. Militias and tribes have sought to fill the ever increasing power vacuum, a situation which has left...

Iraq’s Chaldean Patriarch Receives Red Hat from Vatican

June 29, 2018 — ICC Note: On Thursday, Iraq’s Chaldean Patriarch Mar Louis Raphael Sako received the cardinal’s red hat from Pope Francis. This is widely viewed as a symbolic strengthening of the unity...

Lack of Governance Driving Iraq’s Tribalism

June 26, 2018 — ICC Note: Uncertainty surrounding the outcome of Iraq’s election has kept the government from actively governing. Consequently, there is no path to pursue justice within the current climate. Instead many...

Mosul Church Damaged by ISIS About to Collapse

June 21, 2018 — ICC Note: During ISIS’ occupation of Mosul, the militants actively sought to destroy all symbols of Christianity. Before destroying churches, ISIS desecrated them. The famous Clock Church of Mosul was...

Kidnapped Christian Woman Finally Reunited with Father

June 20, 2018 — ICC Note: When ISIS swept through Iraq, it engaged in a genocide against religious minorities. Yazidi women were the primary target of their sex trafficking trade, but a number of...

Pre-ISIS Prejudices Against Iraqi Christians Continue

June 18, 2018 — ICC Note: The military defeat of ISIS did not eliminate old feelings of prejudice that many feel towards Iraq’s Christians. These prejudices persist even in the village of Shaqlawa, which...

Paradox Abounds in the Nineveh Plains

June 17, 2018 — ICC Note: While many Iraqi Christians desire to stay and rebuild the Nineveh Plains, just as many are ready to leave Iraq after so many years of targeted violence. Nearly...

Iraqi Bishop Recalls Abduction Experience

June 15, 2018 — ICC Note: An Iraqi priest, now a bishop, recalls his abduction by al-Qaeda in 2006 and reflects how this foreshadowed the violence to come by ISIS in 2014. The conditions...

Surprise Alliance Formed in Iraq

June 13, 2018 — ICC Note: Although Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had previously said that he would not work with Iraq’s pro-Iranian bloc, he has formed a surprise political alliance with Iran backed militia...

Future of Iraq’s Christians Remain in Limbo

June 12, 2018 — ICC Note: The Nineveh Plains, the traditional home of Iraq’s Christians, has undergone much turmoil within the last decade. Christians left Iraq in three waves, the latest a result of...

Inter-faith Agreement Reached on Rebuilding the Church of Kokheh

June 11, 2018 — ICC Note: Christians and Muslims have reached an agreement to revive the Church of Kokheh and make it a place of pilgrimage. Christians have called for the church’s revival since...

Telskuf’s Christians: Rebuilding through Resilience

June 11, 2018 —

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06/11/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – In a country filled with numerous competing militias and anonymous terrorists, Iraq’s...

Woman Freed from ISIS Captivity

June 10, 2018 — ICC Note: The Yazidi community is rejoicing at the return of a young woman who was captured by ISIS in 2014. She was captured along with her two children, but...