Christians and Minorities in Iraq Face Threat of Extinction, Says Rights GroupJuly 11, 2016 — ICC Note: The systematic destruction of the Christian people in Iraq and Syria is nothing short of a genocide. The Islamic State has purged the once culturally rich nations of...
Thousands Gather to Mourn Victims of Baghdad BlastJuly 9, 2016 — ICC Note: After a suicide bombing killed 250 people in Baghdad, thousands gathered Wednesday to mourn the loss. Among the mourners were Iraqi Christians carrying candles and posters of the...
ISIS Using WhatsApp and Telegram to Sell Trafficked Girls to Pedophile TerroristsJuly 9, 2016 — ICC Note: It is no secret that ISIS has exploited Yazidi and Christian girls in a wide network of human trafficking and sex slavery. Now these militants have reached a...
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...
REVEALED: The City Where ISIS Now Occupies ALL Churches as Christians Face WIPE OUTJuly 6, 2016 — ICC Note: After more than a decade of sectarian bloodshed and the rise of jihadi terror groups, Christians and other minorities in Iraq are facing total extinction. In a new...
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...
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...
Why Doesn’t the West Care About the Middle East’s Christians?June 25, 2016 — ICC Note: Klaus Wivel has brought much-needed attention to the plight of Middle Eastern Christians in his new book, “The Last Supper: The Plight of Christians in Arab Lands.” As...
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...
‘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...
Banks Accused of Funding ‘Christian Genocide’June 17, 2016 — ICC Note: A California nonprofit is suing two Middle Eastern banks and a Kuwaiti sheik for funding the Islamic State’s genocide against minorities in Iraq and Syria. St. Francis of...
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: 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...
