Booby-Traps Left by ISIS Take the Lives of Returning CiviliansJuly 30, 2017 — ICC Note: As ISIS caliphate shrinks it continues to be a menace. They have booby-trapped many building when they retreated from Mosul and the Nineveh plains. The Iraqi government desperately...
Muslim Asylum Seekers Come to Christ in FinlandJuly 29, 2017 — ICC Note: When the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran parishes realized that Iranian, Afghan and Iraqi asylum seekers were attending services, they decided to create special religious education classes. Many of these...
Coptic Christian Soldier Beaten to Death for his FaithJuly 28, 2017 — ICC Note: Coptic Christians make up 10% of the Egyptian population but are regularly subjected to persecution. Joseph Reda Helmy a Christian, had just completed training and was transferred to...
Mosul: Liberated or Decimated?July 28, 2017 — ICC Note: It has been reported that an Iraqi army major confessed that after Mosul was declared liberated the army was given the command to shoot anything that moved, ISIS,...
Egypt Creates Counter-terrorism Council to Combat Terrorist Attacks from SinaiJuly 27, 2017 — ICC Note: Since President Sisi came to power, Egypt has been rife with terror attacks emanating from the Sinai province that have targeted Coptic Christians. President Sisi has fought unsuccessfully...
Christian Town in Lebanon Request’s Security in the Face of Potential TerrorismJuly 27, 2017 — ICC Note: Lebanon has fought to stay neutral in neighboring Syria’s Civil War, while Hezbollah based in Lebanon continues to fight and support the pro-Assad forces. Despite Lebanon’s attempts to...
No Longer Genocide in Iraq?July 26, 2017 — ICC Note: It appears that the U.S. State Department is removing the term ‘genocide’ from correspondence, speeches, and other documents when referring to ISIS’ treatment of Christians, Yazidis, and other...
Another Body Discovered Dead in Desert After Arrest by Egyptian PoliceJuly 26, 2017 — ICC Note: 19-year-old Tharwat Sameh was found dead in the desert, his body showing signs of extensive torture, several days ago. He was arrested on Saturday and disappeared shortly after...
Muslim Extremist Gives His Life to ChristJuly 25, 2017 — ICC Note: While many Christians were forced to flee their homes in Iraq and Syria in the face of the ISIS onslaught, some pastors stayed, not wanting to see Christianity...
Cardinal Witnesses the Rebirth of QaraqoshJuly 25, 2017 — ICC Note: French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin visited Qaraqosh, Iraq witnessing, with a mixture of sadness and hope, how far the church has come in rebuilding eight months after the town...
Turkish Court To Review Life Sentences of Men Accused of Killing ChristiansJuly 24, 2017 — ICC Note: In 2007, a German missionary and two converts were killed in a Turkish publishing house for their faith. It took several years, but a Turkish court administered life...
Countering Religious Extremism in Egypt’s MetroJuly 24, 2017 — ICC Note: As Egypt’s security remains permeable to attacks from hardline militants, Al-Azhar (the foremost religious institution for Sunni Muslims) is attempting to dispel assumptions that it is fostering religious...
Iran Increases Arrests and Imprisonment of ChristiansJuly 23, 2017 — ICC Note: The Center for Human Rights in Iran voiced their concern over the amount of arrests and imprisonments of Christians made by the Iranian state. Iranian constitution allows for...
Security Forces in Mosul Take Justice Into Their Own HandsJuly 22, 2017 — ICC Note: ISIS may have been defeated, but peace has not returned to Mosul. The security forces that helped liberate Mosul have taken the law into their own hands to...
Will the Fight for ISIS’ Capital of Raqqa in Syria be as Difficult as Mosul?July 21, 2017 — ICC Note: Now that Mosul has fallen, the focus has moved to Raqqa in Syria. It was ISIS’ first city captured and is their capital. The loss of Raqqa would...
Christians Do Not Want to Go Back Home to MosulJuly 21, 2017 — ICC Note: Mosul’s Christians face a difficult choice on whether or not to return to Mosul now that it has been liberated from ISIS. Many do not want to go...
