Boy Captured by ISIS as a Toddler Learns His Name After His Freedom is PurchasedOctober 20, 2017 — ICC Note: A young Yazidi boy captured as a toddler by ISIS has been returned to his family, but has rarely spoken and did not know his name until a...
ISIS Militants Prepared to Disappear Into Society, Alarming Displaced ChristiansOctober 18, 2017 — ICC Note: Defeated in Raqqa, ISIS’s de facto capitol, surviving leaders are on the run while each day the territory they control shrinks. But that does not mean that ISIS...
New Conflict in Iraq Has Separated Displaced Christian Families, Created Atmosphere of UncertaintyOctober 18, 2017 — ICC Note: Tensions regarding the disputed territory between Iraq and Kurdistan has geographically split Christians living in the Nineveh Plains between the two sides. The tension has led authorities to...
New Tensions in Iraq Further Discourages Displaced Christians From Returning HomeOctober 17, 2017 — ICC Note: With the war against ISIS not yet finished, escalating tensions between Kurdistan and Iraq’s federal government has further stressed an already difficult situation. As a result, Christians in...
Escaping the Chains of Slavery: The Plight of Religious Minority WomenOctober 16, 2017 — By Claire Evans 10/16/2017 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) - She was just 11 years old when ISIS captured her. As a Yazidi, the young girl belongs to a religious...
Christian Family of Eight Rescued From Being Executed by ISIS MilitantsOctober 16, 2017 — ICC Note: Reports reveal that during the fall of Mosul this past July, SAS forces identified ISIS fighters preparing to behead a Christian family of eight. The chance encounter not...
Muslim Background Believer Killed by Cousins For Converting, Wife Continues to Share GospelOctober 13, 2017 — ICC Note: A customs officer at Baghdad Airport was killed by his family after converting to Christianity, according to his wife who is also a Christian. His family discovered his...
Yazidi Sex Slave Survivor Shares Story of Capture, EscapeOctober 12, 2017 — ICC Note: Nadia was one of thousands of Yazidis captured by ISIS in August 2014 who was forced into sexual slavery, an experience which still haunts the frail 18 year...
ISIS’s Sexual Enslavement of Religious Minorities Attracted Domestic Abusers as RecruitsOctober 11, 2017 — ICC Note: According to a report published by the Henry Jackson Society, terrorists such as ISIS are using slaves to fund their activities and to attract potential recruits, many of...
Monastery Leveled by ISIS Under Repair as Christian Leaders Encourage Displaced Residents to ReturnOctober 10, 2017 — ICC Note: Christian leaders from Qaraqosh are working to encourage fellow believers to return home, and a group of 300 women has visited a historic monastery as an example to...
One Thousand ISIS Militants Surrender at Key City in Northern IraqOctober 6, 2017 — ICC Note: An estimated one thousand ISIS militants have surrounded after the defeat of Hawija in Northern Iraq, a number representing a significant majority of those militants who were defending...
Qaraqosh Christians Struggle to Rebuild Their Businesses After ISISOctober 5, 2017 — ICC Note: Businessmen are returning to Qaraqosh to rebuild after the city was ruined by ISIS. ISIS occupied the city for two years, and the graffiti left on the ruined...
ISIS Sex Slave Survivor Testifies About the Horrors of CaptivityOctober 4, 2017 — ICC Note: An ISIS sex slave survivor has shared the horrors of her captivity with the US Congress. Shireen, a 31-year-old Yazidi women, was captured by ISIS in 2014 near...
Only Two-Thirds of Nuns From a Convent in Nineveh Plains Survived ISISOctober 3, 2017 — ICC Note: Before ISIS captured the Nineveh Plains in 2014, the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena had 73 nuns. Today, one-third of them have died. They live at...
ISIS May Be Disintegrating, But Militants Still United In Desire to Erase Christianity From RegionSeptember 27, 2017 — ICC Note: ISIS may be disintegrating, but it is also transitioning to a new and potentially more dangerous stage. Ejected from the key cities which they once controlled, many of...
Assyrian Christian Town Devastated By ISIS Begins Weekly Church ServicesSeptember 23, 2017 — ICC Note: Karamles, an Assyrian town southeast of Mosul, is starting to come back to life after ISIS’s invasion. The town originally had nearly 800 homes, nearly half of which...
