UNICEF: Escalating Violence Puts 3.6 Million Iraqi Children in Harm’s WayJuly 5, 2016 — ICC Note: UNICEF has reported that 4.7 million children are in dire need of humanitarian aid. One in five Iraqi children are at serious risk of death, injury, sexual exploitation...
Iraq military liberates Fallujah from ISISJune 29, 2016 — ICC Note: After Iraqi forces have defeated ISIS in the key city of Fallujah, 85 thousand refugees have been created. Most who have been held in the city for the...
For Assyrians: What Future in Iraq?June 27, 2016 — ICC Note: Iraqi Assyrians have suffered a tragic fate at the hands of ISIS and their lightning advance across northern Iraq. This ancient Christian community has been uprooted, pillaged and...
Assyria: Take a Peak Inside a Christian Village on the Frontlines with DaeshJune 26, 2016 — ICC Note: The many Christian villages of Iraq’s Nineveh province now lie empty and desolate after the years of invasion and fighting against Islamic militants. Most Christians from these areas...
Iraqi Christians Try to Sketch Survival Strategy Amid ChaosJune 24, 2016 — ICC Note: On June 20-21 the Catholic Chaldean Church held a two day meeting in Erbil, Iraq to try and “breathe new life” into the pastoral outreach programs to those...
ISIS Horror: Sex Slave Survivor Tells Congress ‘America Must Act to Terminate Terrorists’June 23, 2016 — ICC Note: A former Yazidi sex slave to the Islamic State addressed Congress saying the Obama administration needs to escalate its actions in Iraq if they want to defeat the...
‘I Miss My Old Life’: Christians Flee ISISJune 20, 2016 — ICC Note: Sharmad Ozan, 20, was forced to escape with his family from Mosul when it fell to the Islamic State in June 2014. He now lives in the asylum...
US Accepting Disproportionate Number of Christian Refugees Despite Ongoing GenocideJune 16, 2016 — ICC Note: According to a report from the America Center for Law and Justice, the US is processing a disproportionate number of Christian refugees in spite of the turmoil they...
Iraq Lands Inhabited By Christians Must Be Liberated From ISIS, Demand Syriac PatriarchsJune 16, 2016 — ICC Note: A joint statement by the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch and the Syrian Catholic Patriarch is calling for the liberation of Iraqi lands inhabited by Christians. The Islamic State has...
ISIS Militants Torture Young Girls Who Try to Escape Brutal Rapes, Says Boy Who Fled Terror CampJune 13, 2016 — ICC Note: A Yazidi boy who escaped an Islamic State camp shares the gruelling details of life for minorities under ISIS control. While men are killed, young boys are beaten...
Saving Nineveh: A Catholic Daughter Fights for Her PeopleJune 13, 2016 — ICC Note: The Assyrian Christians are facing a second genocide in the last 100 years. Being the same victims of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic extermination in the early 1920s, these...
Iraq’s Second Largest City Marks Second Year under ISIS ControlJune 10, 2016 — Christians Refuse to Return to Mosul Fearing ISIS’s Ideological Impact 6/10/2016 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has recognized that two years ago, on June 10,...
Iraq: Why Najiba Can’t Go HomeJune 9, 2016 — ICC Note: Najiba is a Christian from the town of Tel Skuf just north of Mosul, Iraq. She was forced to flee her home when the front lines of battle...
Iraqi Christian Woman Says ISIS Militants ‘Married, Divorced’ Her 9 Times a Night to Justify RapeJune 7, 2016 — ICC Note: A recently escaped Iraqi Christian woman said that ISIS militants married and divorced her nine times a night to justify raping her repeatedly. She was captured in Mosul...
Chaldean Cultural Heritage and Identities in Times of DisplacementJune 6, 2016 — ICC Note: Human cultural heritage is an integral part of a group’s identity and is a central target of groups such as ISIS in the Middle East. It is essential...
Exclusive Interview with the Archbishop of MosulMay 28, 2016 — ICC Note: An interview with the archbishop of Mosul sheds more light on the narrative of those fleeing genocide in Iraq. Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf shares his experience in Mosul when...
