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...
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...
The Iraqi Christians who are struggling to survive amid wreckage left by IsisNovember 8, 2016 — ICC Note: The Syriac Catholic Bishop of Baghdad Yusuf Abba taught cooperation and goodwill for all at the first service celebrated in Qaraqosh in over two years. While Christians hope...
Aleppo churches open doors to displaced Muslim familiesNovember 3, 2016 — ICC Note: Aleppo, Syria has been the site of some of the bloodiest and long lasting battles in the Syrian Civil War. Christians and others have fled the city in...
Freedom of Religion in Morocco: The Silent MinoritiesNovember 2, 2016 — ICC Note: Recently, Moroccan Christian activists spoke up via YouTube demanding more equal rights for religious minorities in the country. Christians in Morocco make up less than one percent of...
Saudi Arabia Deports Christians for PrayingSeptember 28, 2016 — ICC Note: Saudi Arabian authorities raided a Christian home in the eastern portion of Saudi Arabia, arresting 27 Lebanese Maronites for “un-Islamic prayer.” The Christians were celebrating the feast of...
Former hostage Terry Waite: ‘We are in a Third World War’September 7, 2016 — ICC Note: Terry Waite was held hostage in Beirut, Lebanon for 1,763 days, 4 years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Now, as he look at the world today,...
Patriarch Issues Dire Warning: Christianity ‘Disappearing’ from MideastSeptember 2, 2016 — ICC Note: Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church warns that Christianity is not only disappearing from Iraq but also countries like Syria, Turkey and Lebanon. Christianity was...
Why we don’t see more Christian refugeesAugust 31, 2016 — ICC Note: Investigative journalists recall their experiences in Iraq in 2007 when the occupation forces were downsizing. The plight of Christian refugees back then is similar to those today. To...
‘We have no voice’: Christians in Jordan 2 years after fleeing N. IraqAugust 5, 2016 — ICC Note: It’s been two years since ISIS invaded Qaraqosh, Iraq, a Christian town and safe haven for those escaping persecution elsewhere in the country. Now those who fled on...
