Coptic Christians Carry Out God’s Command to “Love Your Enemies”June 6, 2017 — ICC Note While the Coptic Christian communities in Egypt are still recovering from the string of attacks that made martyrs of many, they have used their situation as a platform...
Christians face discrimination in KurdistanJune 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...
First Christian Student to be Publicly Accepted to Al-AzharJune 4, 2017 — ICC Note In a bold move Abanoub Guirguis Naeem, an Egyptian Christian, applied to Al-Azhar medical residency program. Al-Azhar University practices a centrist moderate Islam but recently its curriculum has...
Iraqi Christians in desperate need of funds to rebuild their villagesJune 3, 2017 — ICC Note In 2004 there were between 800,000 to 1.4 million Christians in Iraq, now there are fewer than 250,000. Activist are calling on the current administration to act immediately...
Iranian Imprisoned For Her Faith Urgently Needs Medical TreatmentJune 2, 2017 — ICC Note Maryam Naghash Zargaran is being detained unjustly by the Iranian authorities because of her Christian faith and is being denied urgently needed medical treatment. She was arrested for...
Egypt Removes Security Chief of Minya ProvinceMay 31, 2017 — ICC Note After ISIS’s latest attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt, the Egyptian government removed the security chief in the province where the attack happened. The attacks on Coptic Christians...
ISIS Detonates 2 Bombs in Baghdad, Kills at Least 31May 31, 2017 — ICC Note Historically, Ramadan has been an opportune time for groups like ISIS to launch attacks on the civilian population. The trend continued on Tuesday when two bombs exploded in...
Coptic Christians Demand Better Protection From the Egyptian GovernmentMay 30, 2017 — ICC Note Coptic Christians feel their government has failed to protect them after four attacks in six months, the last being the ambush of Christians on their way to...
Muslims Rebuild a Church Destroyed by ISISMay 30, 2017 — ICC Note Iraq has one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. The rise of ISIS, however, led to the destruction of many churches and communities. With Mosul set...
Egyptian Government Struggles to decide next steps to protect its Christian populationMay 28, 2017 — ICC Note After four high profile attacks against Coptic Christians, the Egyptian government is struggling to come up with responses to tighten security. Egypt wants to keep its image as...
Egyptian President calls security meeting in wake of attack on ChristiansMay 26, 2017 — ICC Note Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has called a security meeting in the wake of the deadly attack today against Coptic Christians traveling to a monastery to pray. This is...
Alaa al-Moussawi apologizes to the Christian CommunityMay 26, 2017 — ICC Note After the uproar caused by a video of Alaa al-Moussawi, head of Iraq’s Shia Endowment Fund, where he seemed to be calling for Iraq’s Jews to convert to...
Gunmen Kill at Least 35 Coptic Christians in EgyptMay 26, 2017 — 05/26/2017 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that multiple masked gunmen attacked a caravan of Coptic Christians traveling to the Monastery of St....
Bishop Kyrillos Samaan expresses his great joy in the midst of persecutionMay 25, 2017 — ICC Note In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Bishhop Kyrillos Samaan, expressed his great joy in the midst of the persecution Christians have recently faced in...
Witnessing the devastation in QaraqoshMay 25, 2017 — ICC Note Pastor William Devlin of Infinity Bible Church in New York visited Qaraqosh, once the home to the largest Christian population in Iraq, and witnessed the devastation left behind...
Imprisoned American pastor accused of undermining the Turkish stateMay 23, 2017 — ICC Note Turkey has imprisoned American pastor Andrew Brunson on the charge of delivering pro-Kurdish sermons and of being part of a terrorist organization. Brunson says that he does not...
