Cross Restored to Indiana Town’s Beloved Christmas TreeDecember 29, 2016 — ICC Note: A few weeks ago, a cross was removed from an Indiana town’s Christmas tree display following a lawsuit led by the ACLU of Indiana on behalf someone living...
Housing Complex Orders Residents to Remove NativityDecember 28, 2016 — ICC Note: Residents living in properties owned by Mercy Housing were recently told that they must remove the Nativity from the public spaces in their housing complex. A spokesperson for...
Aggressive Secularism Discriminates Against Christians in the West, Vatican Diplomat WarnsDecember 27, 2016 — ICC Note: A diplomat from the Vatican, Janusz Urbanczyk, spoke about the effects of discrimination against Christians in the West during a recent conference. Although deliberate acts of religiously motivated...
School Choirs Barred from Performing at Annual Nativity CelebrationDecember 26, 2016 — ICC Note: Following complaints from the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), student choirs from Wake County, North Carolina are forbidden from participating in the yearly Nativity performances. The FFRF suggested...
Coach Reprimanded for Taking a Knee during Team PrayerDecember 16, 2016 — ICC Note: A middle school football coach, Eddie Metcalf, has come under fire for participating in a team prayer by taking a knee on the field. Although the prayer was...
Indiana School District Ends Prayer during School Programs Following Complaint from Atheist ActivistsDecember 15, 2016 — ICC Note: Following a letter of complaint from the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), an Indiana school district has decided to remove prayer from all school-sponsored events. In response to...
Most Important Religious Freedom Legislation in Over a Decade Approved by CongressDecember 14, 2016 — The Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act Passes Both Houses 12/14/2016 Washington D.C., (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) is elated to announce that the Frank Wolf International...
Christians in Middle East face grim reality, Villanova speakers sayDecember 11, 2016 — ICC Note: International scholars, government officials and leaders of non-governmental organizations met to discuss the long-simmering tensions of Christians in the Middle East. The conference at Vilannova Univeristy focused on...
New Mexico City Continues Fight to Defend Ten Commandments Monument Declared UnconstitutionalDecember 8, 2016 — ICC Note: The legal battle continues in New Mexico over a Ten Commandments monument located on city hall grounds which was previously declared unconstitutional. Earlier this week, the city council...
US Church Sprayed With Bible Verse About The Killing Of 185,000 Assyrian ChristiansDecember 6, 2016 — ICC Note: An Assyrian church in the San Fernando Valley of California was recently vandalized and graffiti-ed with a verse referencing the killing of 185,000 Middle East Christians. Assyrian Christians,...
US Supreme Court Justice: Religious Freedom in ‘Greater Danger’ than Free SpeechNovember 29, 2016 — ICC Note: Samuel Alito, a US Supreme Court Justice, discussed in a recent speech that religious freedom may be under greater threat than citizens’ rights to free speech. The speech...
Appeals Court Upholds School District’s Order for Teacher to Cleanse Christianity from ClassroomNovember 23, 2016 — ICC Note: An appeals court has recently upheld a ruling that demanded that a high school science teacher remove various references to the Christian faith from her classroom. From posters...
Humanists Want to Ban Christian Shoebox Gifts to Children around the WorldNovember 18, 2016 — ICC Note: Since 2014, the American Humanist Association (AHA) has been working to cease the ministry of Operation Christmas Child, a ministry under the organization Samaritan’s Purse. The ministry seeks...
Appeals Court Upholds Order to Remove Ten Commandments from New Mexico City HallNovember 11, 2016 — ICC Note: During an appeals hearing, a New Mexico court of appeals upheld the order to get rid of a Ten Commandments monument on the property of a city hall....
Oklahoma Voters Reject Proposal to Allow Ten Commandments at State CapitolNovember 9, 2016 — ICC Note: A monument displaying the Ten Commandments on Oklahoma state capitol grounds has yet again come up for debate, this time in the form of a ballot proposal. On...
Atheist Activist Group Says Houses of Worship Shouldn’t Be Polling PlacesNovember 8, 2016 — ICC Note: The Freedom from Religion Foundation, an atheist activist group, recently issued letters to state that places of worship should not be used as polling places for elections. In...
