Fearful Christmas in Baghdad after attacks on ChristiansDecember 28, 2016 — ICC Note: Friday night, two Christians shops were attacked with gunfire leaving a confirmed three dead. The shops were presumably attacked for carrying alcohol. Police and medical sources reported three...
Iraqi Christians celebrate Christmas in IrbilDecember 26, 2016 — ICC Note: Christmas mass was celebrated by more than 1,000 Iraqis in Erbil this week. Mixed feelings penetrated the room as Christians are under genocidal threat and have no future...
ISIS App Teaches Kids to Blow Up Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty in Terror AttacksDecember 23, 2016 — ICC Note: A new app developed by ISIS called Huroof, teaches kids how to target western tour site for terrorism. The app teaches kids how to pronounce words and speak...
Christians ‘Defenseless’ on Christmas ‘Under Yoke of Genocide,’ Warns Watchdog GroupDecember 23, 2016 — ICC Note: As Christmas approaches, Christians in the Middle East and marking the birth of Christ under the yoke of genocide. Executive Director of In Defense of Christians has called...
ISIS Crucifies Spy, Says He Was Part of ‘Crusader Coalition’December 21, 2016 — ICC Note: ISIS has released images of a ‘spy’ that was crucified on Monday. The spy was said to be a member of the ‘crusader coalition’ trying to liberate parts...
Iraqi family flees Islamic State for a festive reunionDecember 19, 2016 — ICC Note: The Naeem family is spending their first peaceful Christmas together in years. The Assyrian Christian family has suffered immensely under the Islamic rule of the Middle East and...
Voices of Iraq: Minorities on the edge of extinctionDecember 17, 2016 — ICC Note: Discrimination in Iraq started long before ISIS emerged. While ISIS is the most brutal and barbaric of persecutors, Iraqi minorities are unsure of their country’s future. Christians, Yazidis,...
ICC Provides Sustainable Small Businesses to Displaced Iraqi ChristiansDecember 15, 2016 — By ICC’s Iraq Correspondent 12/15/2016 Washington, DC (International Christian Concern) – In 2014, ISIS captured Iraq’s largest Christian city, Qeraqosh. Their invasion forced many Christian families to flee, leaving behind...
Future ISIS Defeat Unlikely to Bring Christians Home to MosulDecember 15, 2016 — ICC Note: While Kurdish and Iraqi forces are still working to liberate Mosul from ISIS, new reports are showing that Christians are not likely to return to the city even...
Iraqi Christians Confront Painful Memories in Town’s Clean-UpDecember 13, 2016 — ICC Note: Iraqi Christians returning to Qaraqosh are finding little reason to stay and restart life, as two years of ISIS occupation has all but destroyed the town. The Immaculate...
Between the fronts – Christians in IraqDecember 8, 2016 — ICC Note: Qaraqosh was liberated this fall with Iraqi Security forces and the US backed coalition cleared ISIS from the town limits on their way to Mosul. Now, Christians who...
Three Christian leaders from the Middle East denied entry to the U.K.December 7, 2016 — ICC Note: After Prince Charles visited the ceremony at St. Thomas Cathedral and spoke on the plight of suffering Christians in the Middle East, he extended an invitation to three...
ISIS Sex Slave Survivor Told Jihadists Who Raped Her: ‘No Religion Accepts What They Did’December 5, 2016 — ICC Note: A sex slave survivor of The Islamic State in Iraq has spoken before the UN recounting the atrocities committed against her and fellow women in Iraq. Starting in...
Persecuted Christians Need Your Support, EU Officials ToldDecember 1, 2016 — ICC Note: European Union officials and religious leaders met on Tuesday to discuss the necessary help needed to aid Christians in the Middle East. Many expressed frustrations with the EU...
Water shortage poses risk of deadly disease in Iraq’s MosulDecember 1, 2016 — ICC Note: Citizens in Mosul are now facing a new catastrophic threat with widespread water shortages across the city. Up to 500k civilians do not have access to clean drinking...
Their town now liberated, Iraqi Christians talk of life under ISISNovember 29, 2016 — ICC Note: When ISIS overran the plains of Nineveh in 2014, some 100+ Christians were missing from the escaped villagers of surrounding towns. Now, as many of these towns have...
