After Saturday Comes HopeAugust 22, 2016 — ICC Note: The experience of Father Douglas Bazi, a Chaldean priest who endured nine days of torture in the Middle East has been highlighted in a new book called “After...
Media Ignores Ongoing Genocide of Christians in The Middle EastAugust 17, 2016 — ICC Note: Despite the United States official recognition of the genocide of minorities in the Middle East, the mainstream media has largely ignored the issue. While they report on war...
Carmelites refuse to leave – Only 40,000 Christians left in Aleppo amid continuous airstrikesAugust 9, 2016 — ICC Note: Aleppo was once home to over 160,000 Syrian Christians, that number now stands close to 40,000. The Carmelite nuns of the besieged Syrian city refuse to leave their...
BREAK THE CROSS: Vile ISIS Propaganda Mag Calls on Jihadis to DESTROY ChristianityAugust 3, 2016 — ICC Note: In the latest publication by the Islamic State, Dabiq, their militant’s ‘online mouthpiece’ has urged its followers to finish the task and destroy Christianity. To Christians, they urged...
Thousands of Christians TRAPPED in Syria as army cuts off Aleppo with latest bombing spreeAugust 1, 2016 — ICC Note: Over 300,000 civilians in Aleppo have been cut off from supplies and the city is under siege. The fighting between rebel forces and the Assad regime forces has...
‘They say we are infidels’: How the Church in the Middle East endures amid intense persecutionJuly 30, 2016 — ICC Note: Mindy Belz is a journalist and editor of WORLD magazine as well as a Christian. She has spent over a decade reporting on the ground in the Middle...
Analysis: ISIL Knows its Priorities – and Killing Christians is one of ThemJuly 28, 2016 — ICC Note: For two years ISIS and its affiliate have waged a religious war in the Middle East. They have strategies and they have priorities, Christians being capital among them....
For Many Christians in Middle East, Intimidation or WorseJuly 27, 2016 — ICC Note: The killing of a French priest this week points to the long suffered discrimination experienced by Christians in the Middle East. This type of intimidation and terror is...
Confronting ISIS in Europe and the United States: A Time for ActionJuly 19, 2016 — ICC Note: The was which ISIS is waging is not confined to the Middle East. Recent attacks in France, Belgium and the United States proves that. This is a struggle...
Genocide in Syria and Iraq: Interview with Juliana Taimoorazy of Iraqi Christian Relief CouncilJuly 17, 2016 — ICC Note: An Assyrian Christian and founder of Iraqi Christians Relief Council recently spoke on the situation in Iraq with The Reconnect. Her words echoed the cries of her people...
An Escaped Isis Fighter Says Jihadists ‘Abused Corpses and Killed Christians on the Spot’July 7, 2016 — ICC Note: A former Islamic State jihadist that escaped the terror organization’s grip has shared his experience with the militant group. Zurab is from the North Caucasus and joined ISIS...
Soldiers Beheaded, Churches Destroyed and Constant Fear: Syrian Christian on Life Under ISIS in RaqqaJuly 1, 2016 — ICC Note: Syrian Christian sheds light on what the last two years living under ISIS in Raqqa, Syria was like. Raqqa was overrun by the Islamic State on 13 January...
Five Killed and Dozens Wounded as Suicide Bombers Hit Christian Village in LebanonJune 28, 2016 — Middle Eastern Christians Fear Spread of ISIS Violence 06/28/2016 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern): International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that four suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Christian...
170 Muslim Refugees Had Me SurroundedJune 27, 2016 — ICC Note: CEO of Open Doors USA shares his experience and opinion on the perception of Middle East refugees. He explains that mixture of uneducated perceptions leads to the persecution...
ISIS Beheads 4-Y-O Girl Then Forces Mother to Soak Hands in Daughter’s BloodJune 22, 2016 — ICC Note: In yet another shocking report, ISIS has allegedly beheaded a 4-year-old girl who refused to go home after her mother told her to. The mother was overheard by...
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...