Conference Brings Christians and Muslims TogetherMarch 6, 2017 — ICC Note: A two-day conference was held at Al-Azhar University in Cairo and with a reported 600 Christian and Muslim leaders from more than 50 countries attending. The goal of...
ISIS Uses Minorities as Human ShieldsMarch 6, 2017 — ICC Note: As Iraqi forces progress through the country recapturing their territory, ISIS seems to be responding with desperate acts. Targeting civilians and other minorities, the extremist group is reported...
ISIS Video Threatens Elimination of Coptic ChristiansMarch 3, 2017 — ICC Note: Murders of Coptic Christians are reported to have increased after ISIS released a video vowing to remove this entire minority population from Egypt. Killers are said to be...
Iraqi Forces Discover Mass Grave of ISIS’s VictimsMarch 3, 2017 — ICC Note: Iraqi forces have taken control of the area containing a massive sinkhole, which is estimated to contain numerous bodies of ISIS’s victims. Reports suggest Christians and other religious...
Potential Deadly Double-Team Against Christians in LibyaMarch 2, 2017 — ICC Note: Sources suggest that terrorist groups ISIS, also known as ISIL, and al-Qaeda are cooperating in southern Libya which could prove dangerous for minority Christian groups in that area....
Egyptian Government Should Better Protect Vulnerable Christian PopulationMarch 2, 2017 — ICC Note: Numerous sources have reported an increase in the killing and kidnapping of Coptic Christians in northeastern Egypt. As extremist groups continue these attacks, Amnesty International has accused the...
Egyptian President Offers Assistance for Fleeing ChristiansFebruary 28, 2017 — ICC Note: After the Islamic State claimed responsibility for killing Christians in Arish earlier this year, hundreds of Christians fled from Ismailia from January 30 to February 23. On Saturday...
Iraqi Christians Reveal Horrors of Living Under ISIS’ Control in MosulJanuary 26, 2017 — ICC Note: Many Christians in Mosul escaped when ISIS captured it, scattering to neighboring areas like Erbil. Unfortunately, a few Christians were not able to escape in time. They have...
Another Coptic Christian Murdered in EgyptJanuary 26, 2017 — ICC Note: On January 16, Ishak Ibrahim Fayez Younan’s brother found Younan lying in a pool of blood inside Younan’s own home. After Younan’s brother called the police, they determined...
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’...
At Least 20 Churches in Aleppo, Syria Have Been DestroyedSeptember 30, 2016 — ICC Note: At least 20 Christian churches in Aleppo, Syria have been destroyed because of airstrikes. Before the war, 60 percent of Aleppo’s population was Christian but now there are...
Muslim Boat Captain on Trial for Drowning 6 Christian RefugeesSeptember 30, 2016 — ICC Note: A Muslim boat captain is on trial for beating then pushing six Christian refugees into the water while transporting them from Morocco to Spain. Surviving refugees reported that...
Men Who Murdered Christians in Turkey Finally ConvictedSeptember 29, 2016 — ICC Note: In 2007, three Christian males were tied up, tortured, and murdered in a Turkish publishing house. Five men were finally found guilty this week and sentenced to three...
Iran Arrests 25 Christians for Unknown ReasonsSeptember 29, 2016 — ICC Note: Iran has arrested at least 25 Christians in Kerman, Iran for unknown reasons. Iranian security forces broke into the Christians’ homes, searched them, and took various objects before...
Saudi Arabia Deports Christians for PrayingSeptember 28, 2016 — ICC Note: Saudi Arabian authorities raided a Christian home in the eastern portion of Saudi Arabia, arresting 27 Lebanese Maronites for “un-Islamic prayer.” The Christians were celebrating the feast of...
Iran Sentences Christians To Be FloggedSeptember 28, 2016 — ICC Note: Iran continues to demonstrate its intolerance for Christianity by sentencing three Christians to be flogged for drinking wine during Communion. Iranian police initially arrested five Christians but have...
