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,…
RELEASE – United States Takes Action Against Violators of Religious Freedom
Save the Persecuted Christians | December 16, 2020 CONTACT:Hamilton Strategies, Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, Nick DiFazio, 610.584.1096, ext. 104, or Deborah Hamilton, ext. 102 Save the Persecuted Christians Applauds the Designation of Nigeria as a…
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…
QATAR – Qatari Education Curriculum Promotes Religious Persecution
International Christian Concern | September 14, 2020 A new report produced by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education studied 238 Qatari textbooks over the last four academic…
IRAN – ‘First movie ever to address underground Christian movement in Iran’
Article 18 | September 3, 2020 A new film is the “first ever to address the underground Christian movement inside of Iran”, its director says. Cyrus Nowrasteh told Article18 that…
EGYPT – Egyptian Mayor Forces Displacement of Christian Family
International Christian Concern | August 24, 2020 Egyptian officials have forced a Coptic Christian family living in Hawarat village (Fayoum Province) to vacate their properties and leave the village, according…
MIDDLE EAST – Trump Condemns “Disgraceful” Treatment of Mideast Christians
Middle East Forum | Raymond Ibrahim | August 18, 2020 According to President Donald Trump, Christians in the Middle East are being treated in a manner that is "beyond disgraceful";…
IRAN – Iranian pastor, wife lose appeal of prison sentences for house church participation
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | August 18, 2020 The parents of an Iranian Christian who met with President Donald Trump last year in the Oval Office have lost their…
EGYPT – Healing After Suicide: Pandemic Pushes Persecuted Christians to the Edge
International Christian Concern | Emma Reeves | August 12, 2020 Egypt’s Christians exist within a delicate environment, where one misstep could lead to a loss of life or livelihood. Hypervigilance…
LEBANON – Lebanese priest: ‘We need your prayers’ after Beirut explosions
Catholic News Agency | August 4, 2020 A Lebanese Catholic priest has asked believers around the world to pray for the people of his country, after two explosions in Beirut…
YEMEN – Persecuted Yemeni Christians Request Prayer
International Christian Concern | July 28, 2020 Christians living in Yemen request prayer as they experience persecution amidst ongoing war, food shortages, and COVID-19. These challenges have created a…
WORLDWIDE – Don’t Forget about Religious Persecution
National Review| Dmitri Solzhenitsyn| July 10, 2020 As America contends with the seemingly never-ending problems that 2020 presents, some news topics go to the forefront while others are put on the…
IRAN – 12 Christians arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in 3 cities: report
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | July 8, 2020 At least a dozen Christians in Iran were reportedly arrested, some of whom were allegedly beaten, by Revolutionary Guard intelligence officers…
IRAN – Iran Continues to Persecute Christian Converts With Arrests, Prison Sentences and Financial Penalty
Iran HRM | July 6, 2020 At least 12 Iranian Christian coverts have been arrested by the intelligence agents of the Revolutionary Guards Corps in coordinated arrests across across three…
TURKEY – Caught in the Middle
International Christian Concern | Claire Evans | July 3, 2020 They climb mountains, cross valleys, and swim across the sea. Sometimes all of their earthly possessions are packed onto their…
IRAN – Iran downplays explosion at major nuclear facility as ‘incident’
World Israel News | Paul Shindman | July 2, 2020 A fire and an explosion struck a building above Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, a site that U.S.-based analysts…
ISRAEL – Messianic church in Israel wins restraining order in case against anti-evangelism group
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | June 30, 2020 A Messianic Jewish congregation of about 350 people in Israel has won a restraining order against members of an anti-evangelism organization…
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…
SYRIA – Reminder of Persecution in Syria
International Christian Concern | June 25, 2020 On Monday, the terrorist group HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) detained one of its own former commanders for defecting. HTS raided the house of…
IRAN – Iranian woman released from prison says regime is detaining 15 other Christians
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | June 22, 2020 Iranian Christian convert and human rights activist Mary Mohammadi, who spent 46 days in a detention center and a prison for…
WORLDWIDE – Religious persecution is engulfing the world Religious persecution is engulfing the world
Christian Post | Arielle Del Turco | June 18, 2020 Believers in many countries face severe challenges, according to the State Department’s annual Report on International Religious Freedom, released last week.…
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…
EGYPT – Christian horror as church torn down – priest and worshippers attacked by ‘extremists’
Express | BRIAN MCGLEENON | June 9, 2020 Egyptian authorities demolished a Christian church building and the mosque that was built next to it in the town of Koum Al-Farag. The church had…
SYRIA – ISIS Attacks Increase in NE Syria
International Christian Concern | June 8, 2020 According to research published by the Washington Institute, the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour has experienced 638 ISIS attacks since March 2019. This…
IRAN – Four Iranian Christian Converts Jailed
International Christian Concern | June 3, 2020 This past Thursday, four Iranian Christian converts were summoned to begin their five-year jail sentences. Hossein Kadivar, Khalil Dehghanpour, Kamal Naamanian and Mohammed…
MIDDLE EAST – Report: Pandemic and Persecution in the Middle East
International Christian Concern | May 29,2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has initiated global lockdowns, slowing down societies but not religious persecution. In the Middle East, where persecution was once defined by…
MIDDLE EAST – Middle Eastern Christians: cautiously hopeful in the face of adversity
Mercatornet | William Huang | May 27, 2020 After months of restrictions and a war of words between bishops, pastors and governments, church services have finally returned to parts of…
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 – Anglican Church member given third prison sentence at retrial
Article18 | May 18, 2020 An Iranian Anglican Church member has been reconvicted of membership of a “Zionist Evangelical Christian” group “hostile to the regime” at his retrial, and convicted…
IRAN – Iranian Christians sent to jail, unable to afford bail
Article18 | May 15, 2020 Ramin Hassanpour, his wife Kathrin Sajadpour, Moslem Rahimi and one other have been sent to Lakan Prison. Four Iranian converts to Christianity have been sent…
ALGERIA – US Leaders Denounce Christian Persecution in Algeria
International Christian Concern| May 11, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Congressman Doug Lamborn has delivered a letter to the Algerian government, calling attention to the increasing persecution…
EGYPT – How Will the Coronavirus Impact Egypt?
International Christian Concern | May 6, 2020 COVID-19 has brought the globe to a grinding halt. But as each country addresses the pandemic, new trends are emerging which could provide…
MIDDLE EAST – Model of Humanitarian Aid for Persecuted Christians Must Change, Experts Say
The Tablet | Christopher White | May 1, 2020 Advocates for Christians in the Middle East are calling for an overhaul of the way humanitarian aid is distributed by western…
ALGERIA – USCIRF Designates Algeria as Religious Freedom Violator for First Time Ever
International Christian Concern | April 29, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) added Algeria to its 2020 annual report…
LIBYA – Libyan Army arrests terrorist behind church bombings in Egypt
AMN | April 23, 2020 The spokesman for the Libyan National Army (LNA), Ahmed Al-Mismari, announced that the LNA was able to arrest the terrorist, Mohammad Mohammad Sayyed, also known…
IRAN – Iran sentences Christian woman to 3 months in prison, 10 lashes for protesting regime
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | April 22, 2020 Iranian Christian convert and human rights activist Mary Mohammadi has been sentenced to three months in prison and torture for protesting…
RELEASE – Iranian Christian Mary Mohammadi Questioned About Faith During Hearing This Week
Save the Persecuted Christians | April 16, 2020 Close Friend Reports to Save the Persecuted Christians That Court Could Issue Verdict for 21-Year-Old Woman Soon WASHINGTON—Iranian Christian Mary Mohammadi, a…
EGYPT – Egypt says police thwarted Easter terror attack
MEO | April 15, 2020 An Egyptian policeman and seven suspected militants were killed late on Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire after the ministry of interior received information about…
ISRAEL – Israel to help Christians share ‘holy fire’ amid outbreak
Stripes | Josef Federman | April 3, 2020 Israel is working with foreign governments and Orthodox Christian leaders in the Holy Land to make sure that one of their most…
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,…
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