Iraqi Christian Villages Emptied by Fear of Turkish Attacks

November 21, 2021 — 11/21/2021 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Christian and Kurdish villages in northern Iraq continue to fear Turkish bombardment as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. On the evening of November 6, Turkish...

Turkey-PKK Fighting Evacuates 20 Iraqi Villages In 2021 Alone

August 8, 2021 — 08/08/2021 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – In 2021 alone, six civilians have been killed and 20 villages evacuated in Iraq as a result of Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party...

USCIRF Condemns Turkish Bombing of Christian Village in Iraq

June 3, 2021 — 06/03/2021 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – In the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 25, residents of Miska, a small Christian community in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq, were...

Kurdistan Region Pledges Protection of Christian Rights

May 10, 2021 — 05/10/2021 Kurdistan Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met with the Vatican ambassador to Iraq, Ambassador Mitja Leskovar, and announced that the rights of Christians would be...

Iraqi Christians Mark Fifth Year of Easter as Sojourners

April 16, 2019 — 4/16/19 Iraq (International Christian Concern)- Christian refugees from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain began preparations to celebrate their fifth Easter in Iraqi Kurdistan. All across the region, Christians gathered on Saturday...

Christian Group Warns Against the Inclusion of the Nineveh Plains in the Upcoming Referendum

August 4, 2017 — ICC Note: This week, a Christian movement threatened that they would oppose the inclusion of the Nineveh Plains, majority Christian areas, in the upcoming Kurdistan independence referendum. The Babylon Movement...

Biggest Church in the Region Opens in Kurdistan

July 2, 2017 — ICC Note: After eight years of construction, one of the biggest churches in the Middle East has opened in Kurdistan Region. It can seat 1,300 people, currently most of the...

Christians face discrimination in Kurdistan

June 6, 2017 — ICC Note Christians and other religious minorities fled ISIS into what is known as Kurdistan. With greater autonomy, Kurdistan is now agitating for independence. However the situation in Kurdistan is...

Christian convert in French refugee camp told: ‘We will kill you’

November 2, 2016 — ICC Note: A Kurdish church leader living in France had to flee to the UK after receiving multiple death threats for his conversion to Christianity. While living in the ‘Jungle’...