IRAQ – With a Mass Funeral, Yazidi Survivors Honor Victims of ISIS
Seattle Times | Feb. 7, 2021 KOJO, Iraq — They had waited years to bury the remains of their husbands, sons and brothers. Cradling fresh earth draped in Iraqi flags,…
IRAQ – Iraq Government Continues to Deny Access to Humanitarian Aid
International Christian Concern | October 21, 2020 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have continued to not receive national access…
IRAQ – Iraqi Christians Worry Over Militia Power Struggle
International Christian Concern | June 29, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the night of June 25, 2020, Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Services (ICTS) launched a raid in Baghdad…
MIDDLE EAST – ISIS Terrorists Cannot Be Allowed to Reclaim Iraq
Gatestone Institute | Con Coughlin | June 18, 2020 With the primary focus of the Trump administration understandably concentrated on a variety of pressing domestic issues, from the forthcoming presidential…
UN – UN at ‘pivotal moment’ in bringing Islamic State fighters to justice for enslavement of Yazidis
Telegraph | James Rothwell | May 19, 2020 UN investigators say they have made “significant progress” in helping Iraq collect evidence for a future trial of Islamic State fighters over…
IRAN – Iran continues to terrorize Iraqi Catholics
S4C News | Meuwissen Sebastien | March 30, 2020 Baghdad and Mosul are overrun by Shiite paramilitary groups who receive funding and weapons from Iran. These groups helped defeat ISIS,…
FRANCE – French Christian charity workers kidnapped in Iraq are freed
BBC | March 27, 2020 Four workers from a French Christian charity who were kidnapped in Iraq in January have been freed, President Emmanuel Macron's office said. The three French…
IRAN – Persecuted Middle East Christians Petition International Community: ‘Stand Up for Your Brothers and Sisters’
Decision | Becca Coon | February 10, 2020 “My fear is that we’re too quiet,” said Dabrina Bet-Tamraz, an Iranian Christian whose father, mother and brother are imprisoned in Iran…
WORLDWIDE – Middle East patriarchs discuss plight of Christian minorities with Pope Francis
Catholic News Agency | Hannah Brockhaus | February 7, 2020 Six Catholic patriarchs from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq met with Pope Francis at the Vatican Friday to discuss the…
IRAQ – Iraq’s Christians, Muslims, and Yezidis unite to remember Holocaust
New Europe | Tamar Svanidze | January 31, 2020 Various religious denominations from Iraq came together to mark the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust and the more than 6 million…
IRAQ – 4 aid workers with French charity Christians of the Middle East disappear in Baghdad
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | January 29, 2020 Four members of the French nongovernmental organization Christians of the Middle East, a charity that seeks to "help Christian communities…
RELEASE – 2020 Open Doors World Watch List Heightens Urgency of Persecuted Christians Worldwide
For Immediate Release | January 17, 2020 Save the Persecuted Christians Points to Nigeria’s Unchanged Ranking, Even Amid Especially Violent Year in African Nation WASHINGTON—Open Doors USA, a community of…
IRAQ – What’s next for Christians in the Middle East?
Angesul | Stephen M. Rasche | January 14, 2020 The future of the Iraqi Christians stands now on a precipice. The coming months will likely determine whether they are pushed…
IRAQ/IRAN/USA – U.S. military claims responsibility for deadly airstrike on Iran’s Quds leader
Washington Times | Dave Boyer and Guy Taylor | Jan. 2, 2020 The U.S. military claimed responsibility Thursday night for an airstrike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of…
USA/IRAQ/SYRIA – Career Officials Thwart Aid to Christian, Yazidi Genocide Victims
Real Clear Politics | Susan Crabtree | Dec. 11, 2019 In the summer of 2014, the vicious Islamic State campaign against Yazidis and Christians in Iraq convinced President Obama to…
IRAQ – Kurdish Tribes Stealing Assyrian Christian Lands
Foreign Policy Journal | Taiyo "Siraj" Davis | Dec. 4, 2019 There has been an ongoing occupation in Northern Iraq of Assyrian Christian indigenous lands, largely ignored by the mainstream…
HUNGARY – Assyrian Patriarchs Address Christian Persecution Conference in Hungary
Assyrian Patriarchs Address Christian Persecution Conference in Hungary AINA | Bar Daisan | Nov. 28, 2019 Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch Ignatius Aphrem II. ( Syriac Patriarchate)…
IRAQ – An Iraq for All Iraqis? – Providence
Providence Magazine | Jeremy Barker | Nov. 26, 2019 Religious minorities hope the Iraqi protest movement can reshape the country to serve the interests of all Iraqis Demonstrations on the…
MIDDLE EAST – The unseen genocide
The Mass Media | Matthew Reiad | Nov. 1, 2019 In history classes, we are often taught about atrocious genocides that have occurred all over the world. The Armenian Genocide…
IRAQ – Deadly protests in their country leave Iraqi Christians between hope and fear
Aleteia | Xavier Bisits-ACN-USA | Nov. 1, 2019 Iraqi Christians, concentrated in the north of the country, are far from the epicenter of deadly protests in Baghdad, but their fate…
USA – Anti-IS coalition to meet in Washington on November 14, US says
Times of Israel | Oct. 29, 2019 WASHINGTON — More than 30 nations fighting the Islamic State group will gather in Washington on November 14 in a French-initiated meeting as…
SYRIA / NIGERIA – Hold Some of the Champagne on Al-Baghdadi
Center for Security Policy | Frank Gaffney | Oct. 28, 2019 This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. America achieved an important victory over the Islamic State yesterday…
USA / SYRIA – Remarks by President Trump on the Death of ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
The White House | Oct. 27, 2019 https://youtu.be/GYzNpv-7F7M THE PRESIDENT: Last night, the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. He…
IRAQ / SYRIA – Report: Persecution in Iraq Down After Loss of 90% of Nation’s Christians
Breitbart | Frances Martel | Oct. 24, 2019 Christian persecution in Iraq and Syria has decreased dramatically in the aftermath of the fall of the Islamic State, a report published…
IRAQ – Iraqi Christians Raise Up Images of Christ Amid Deadly Anti-Government Protests
CBN News | Emily Jones | Oct. 7, 2019 JERUSALEM, Israel - At least 104 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded in the six bloody days of…
MIDDLE EAST – Brownback: Christianity’s future in Middle East has reached defining moment
CRUX | Josephine von Dohlen | Sept. 13, 2019 In a file photo, Sam Brownback, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom and former Kansas governor, speaks during a forum addressing…
MIDDLE EAST – Persecution destroys Middle East Christians, Petra Heldt
Herland Report | Sept. 7, 2019 Herland Report (HTV): Persecution against Christians is a massive problem in the Middle East. Dr. Petra Heldt, Professor at the Hebrew University and founder…
WORLDWIDE – “There Is No Christian Anymore in This Town”: Persecution of Christians
Gatestone Institute | Raymond Ibrahim | Aug. 25, 2019 Pictured: The small village of Sobane Da, in Mali, where at least 95 Christians were murdered by Fulani gunmen in June.…
IRAQ & SYRIA – The Extinction of Christians in the Middle East
Aug. 18, 2019 | Gatestone Institute | By Giulio Meotti Convert, pay or die. Five years ago, that was the "choice" the Islamic State (ISIS) gave to Christians in Mosul,…
IRAQ – intimidation of Nineveh Plain Christians
Aug. 8, 2019 | Middle East Concern Iraqi Christians asked us to pray for the town of Bartella, a predominantly Christian town in the Nineveh Plains, east of Mosul, where…
IRAQ – Is Iraq Set to Follow Iran and Curb Religious Freedom?
July 30, 2019 | By Nina Shea | Real Clear Politics While it struggles to constrain Iran-controlled militias it once welcomed to help defeat ISIS, Iraq now appears poised to…
USA / IRAQ – ‘Hope is Back’: Trump Helps Save Christians, Yazidis in Iraq from Extinction
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is helping bring Christians and Yazidis in Iraq back from the brink of extinction fomented by a genocidal campaign at the hands of the Islamic…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians’ Moving Exhibits Part of Second Annual ‘Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom’
July 15, 2019 | ***NEWS RELEASE*** | For Immediate Release STPC Leaders Will Attend and Lead Sessions at Historic Gathering July 16-18 WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC), which advocates on…
IRAQ – Iraq: Five years after IS occupied Mosul, returnees live in fear
The Islamic State’s three-year occupation of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and its surrounding villages ended nearly two years ago, yet the city and its diminished number of Christian residents remain…
ADVISORY – Save the Persecuted Christians Urges Viewing of Powerful Film ‘Christians in the Mirror’
MEDIA ADVISORY | June 5, 2019 Washington, D.C., Premiere on June 10 Will Shine a Light on the Lives of Persecuted Christians in Egypt, India, Iraq, Syria and Sudan WASHINGTON—Save…
IRAQ – Iraqi Christian survives being burned alive by ISIS 3 times: ‘[Jesus] spoke to me’
An Iraqi Christian who said Jesus appeared to him twice in his dreams recounts being imprisoned by ISIS, tortured and burned three times by the terrorist group. The man, a Yazidi, recounts his harrowing…
MIDDLE EAST – The Impossible Future of Christians in the Middle East
The Atlantic | Emma Green | May 23, 2019 The call came in 2014, shortly after Easter. Four years earlier, Catrin Almako’s family had applied for special visas to the…
IRAQ – Disabled Iraqi Christian Woman Overcomes Persecution
International Christian Concern | March 20, 2019 Although the reconstruction of Mosul is slow, following its three-year occupation by the Islamic State (ISIS), the city’s bustling university provides hope for…
IRAQ – Iraqi Christian Village Withstands Turkish Airstrikes
International Christian Concern | Jan. 17, 2019 The Amedi district in northern Kurdistan was bombed by Turkey 98 times during the past year, killing at least 12 people, according to…
IRAQ – Iraqi Curriculum Issues Veiled Threat Against Christian Women
International Christian Concern |Jan. 15, 2019 Questions persist throughout Iraq regarding whether ISIS is truly defeated or will rise again, perhaps under the banner of another terrorist organization. For Iraqi…