Two Boys Tell Their Story of Being Forced to Fight for ISIS

March 15, 2017 — ICC Note: Two teenage Yazidi boys open up about what it was like to be forced to train and fight for the Islamic State. Held for over a year, the...

Churches Step Up to Provide Homes for Coptic Christians

March 15, 2017 — ICC Note: Many of the Christian families fleeing Arish are congregating in the Egyptian city of Ismailia. With very few personal belongings and little preparations, these families arrive in the...

50 Year Old Blind Woman Resisted Islamic Conversion

March 14, 2017 — ICC Note: A 50-year-old, blind Christian woman resisted conversion to Islam for over two years. Now living in a displacement camp, she is opening up about her experiences living under...

ISIS Intercepts Coptic Christians Fleeing El-Arish

March 14, 2017 — ICC Note: ISIS has retaliated against Egyptian forces in El-Arish and is said to be checking ID cards at checkpoints. The extremist group is reported to have said that they...

North Carolina Pastor Remains Imprisoned in Turkey

March 13, 2017 — ICC Note: Rev. Andrew Brunson, from North Carolina, has worked in Turkey for the last 23 years. The pastor remains in prison under false accusations since December. While it is...

Ruins of a Christian Church in Mosul Taken Back by Iraqi Forces

March 13, 2017 — ICC Note: A Christian church in Mosul had been taken over by ISIS at the time of the city’s conquer and used as a haven for their religious police. These...

26 Dead and 67 Injured After Wedding Bombing

March 12, 2017 — ICC Note: As a wedding party for a displaced family was in full swing, two suicide bombers attacked. The bombers are reported to have killed 26 people and injuring another...

Abducted Christian Woman Given Muslim Identity

March 10, 2017 — ICC Note: The brother of the 18-year-old Christian woman abducted in late January is reported to have learned that Hanan Girgis has been given a new Muslim identity and is...

Mother and Son Arrested in Iran for Conversion to Christianity

March 10, 2017 — ICC Note: While Christianity is said to be growing in Iran, believers still need to attend underground churches in secret. After Bibles and other theological books were found in the...

Death Sentence for Murderer of Coptic Christian

March 10, 2017 — ICC Note: A sliver of justice seems to have finally prevailed for Egypt’s Coptic Christians. While another reported targeted killing has taken place against 61-year-old Youssef Lamei, his alleged Muslim...

Spokesman for the Coptic Church Prays for Conversion of Persecutors

March 9, 2017 — ICC Note: A spokesman for the Coptic Church requested prayer for the conversion of the persecutors in Egypt. While Egypt’s Christians have endured much persecution over the last 5 years,...

Three Year Old Girl Killed in ISIS Attack

March 9, 2017 — ICC Note: A missionary team reports that they watched ISIS bomb a Christian family. The only reported death from the attack is the three-year-old daughter of the Iraqi family. The...

Muslim Conversions Spike European Church Growth

March 8, 2017 — ICC Note: Church attendance in Europe seems to be skyrocketing with the rapid conversions of Iranian and Afghani immigrants to Christianity. Europe has a history of low church growth, but...

Brainwashing Textbooks Discovered in Mosul

March 8, 2017 — ICC Note: As Iraqi forces continue liberating Mosul from ISIS control, they report having discovered brainwashing textbooks for children in the orphanages. The books addressed subjects such as reading, writing,...

Syrian Children Suffer Severe Psychological Trauma

March 7, 2017 — ICC Note: Millions of Syrian children are said to be the victims of “toxic stress” due to their exposure to the horrors of war. Children under the age of six...

Population of Iraqi Christians Quickly Diminishing

March 7, 2017 — ICC Note: Only a fraction of the Christians from Qeraqosh seem to be returning to their home town after ISIS has been removed. ISIS is reported to have taken what...