IRAQ – Why US forces must step in to save Iraqi Christians from extinction
New York Post | Dec. 15, 2018 When ISIS fighters burst into Father Afran Sony’s monastery in northern Iraq in June 2014 wielding machine guns and knives, he and his…
IRAQ – Basra Christians Slowly Abandon the City
International Christian Concern | Dec. 14, 2018 According to a publication by the Barnabas Fund, an estimated one Christian family a month is fleeing Iraq’s southern city of Basra. It…
EGYPT – Egyptian Police Officer Murders Two Christian Men
International Christian Concern | Dec. 14, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the evening of December 12, Egyptian police officer Rabi Mustapha Khalifa shot and killed Coptic…
EGYPT — Two Christians Murdered by Muslim Policeman Guarding Their Church in Egypt
A Muslim policeman charged with guarding a Coptic Christian church shot and killed two Copts—a father, 49, and his son, 21—Wednesday in Minya, Egypt.Eyewitnesses say a verbal quarrel had ensued…
EGYPT – Islamic Extremists Strike Yet Another Church in Upper Egypt
International Christian Concern | Dec. 11, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Sunday, December 9, a group of Islamic extremists attacked a church in the Upper Egypt…
IRAQ – Assyrian Village in North Iraq Closes School After Turkish Shelling
Assyrian International News Agency | Dec. 5, 2018 Christian village near the Kurdistan Region's northern border has temporarily halted all activities due to intermittent Turkish shelling near the area. "The…
IRAN – Iran: ‘staggering’ number of Christians arrested – 114 in a week
World Watch Monitor | Dec. 5, 2018 Over 100 Christians have been arrested in Iran in the past week and nearly 150 in the past month, as part of the…
IRAN – Iranian Christian Prisoner Denied Right to See Dying Mother
International Christian Concern | Dec. 5, 2018 Ebrahim Firouzi is an Iranian Christian convert who has been detained in prison since 2013. His mother, Kobra Kamrani, passed away from cancer…
IRAN – Group of Christians Arrested in Iran
International Christian Concern | Dec. 4, 2018 Mehr News Agency, which is a semi-official mouthpiece of the Iranian Regime, announced in an exclusive report on Saturday that a group of…
ALGERIA – Algeria: Christian family charged with ‘inciting a Muslim to change his religion’
World Watch Monitor | Dec. 4, 2018 Four Algerian Christians appeared in court last week, charged with “inciting a Muslim to change his religion” and “performing religious worship in an…
SAUDI ARABIA – First Coptic Mass Held in Saudi Arabia
International Christian Concern | Dec. 3, 2018 Multiple news outlets report that Saudi Arabia hosted its first Coptic Orthodox mass this past Sunday. The mass was held inside a home…
MIDDLE EAST – Millions of Christians Face ‘Imminent Extinction’ in Middle East
Assyrian International News Agency | Dec. 3, 2018 Most Reverend Justin Welby said that Christians are facing "the worst situation since the Mongol invasions of the 13th Century", explaining how…
MIDDLE EAST – Archbishop of Canterbury: Christians on Brink of ‘Extinction’ in Middle East
Newsmax | Dec. 3, 2018 Faced with the "daily threat of murder" in the Middle East, Christians are on the verge of "imminent extinction," according to the archbishop of Canterbury in the U.K.'s…
EGYPT – Discrimination against Christians in Egypt Reflects Deeper Issues
Morning Star News | Dec. 3, 2018 A wan effort to do away with the religious designation on ID cards in Egypt reflects the enormity of the discrimination Christians face…
IRAQ – Militia Forces Threaten Iraqi Priest
International Christian Concern | Dec. 3, 2018 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on the morning of December 1, Shabak militia forces aggressively blocked access to St. George Assyrian…
IRAQ – 120 Christian Sites Destroyed in Mosul
International Christian Concern | Dec. 2, 2018 Rudaw reports that thousands of Christian homes as well as 120 churches and Christian shrines have been destroyed by ISIS in Mosul alone.…
MIDDLE EAST – Church leaders call for aid for Christians, minority religious groups in Middle East
Abouna - Dec. 2, 2018 Armenian, Greek, Catholic and Syriac church leaders are asking for President Donald Trump’s support in protecting the religious freedoms of oppressed Christians and other minorities…
SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Arabia’s Textbooks Encourage Violence Against Christians
International Christian Concern | Dec. 1, 2018 The New York Daily News reports that Saudi Arabia has failed to remove extremist content promoting violence against religious minorities from the educational…
IRAQ – Mosul’s Destruction Haunts the Nineveh Plains
International Christian Concern | Nov. 29, 2018 Mosul was once a beautiful city. Today, piles of rubble are everywhere. Buildings are completely demolished; cars are riddled with bullet holes. Despite…
EGYPT – Egypt Church Attack Deemed a Misdemeanor
International Christian Concern | Nov. 29, 2018 An intruder who broke into a Cairo Church and attacked two Christians while shouting Islamic slogans has had his case referred to a Court of…
IRAQ – Mosul’s Destruction Haunts the Nineveh Plains
International Christian Concern | Nov. 29, 2018 Mosul was once a beautiful city. Today, piles of rubble are everywhere. Buildings are completely demolished; cars are riddled with bullet holes. Despite…
SYRIA – Syrian Armenian Refugees Avoid Turkey
International Christian Concern | Nov. 25, 2018 A new report by journalist Serdar Korucu indicates that Syrian Armenian refugees are intentionally avoiding Turkey. Instead, they chose to travel much more…
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA – 270 Slaughtered by ‘Irrelevant’ ISIS in Recent Days
Clarion Project | Nov. 25, 2018 Proving to the world it is anything but irrelevant, ISIS in recent days reportedly mounted attacks in Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Libya and…
IRAQ – Iraq Cracks Down on Customary Tribal Justice
International Christian Concern | Nov. 23, 2018 The centuries old Iraqi tribal practice of resolving disputes through the “degga ashairiya” has now been classified by the government as an act…
ALGERIA – Another Algerian Church Closed
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 23, 2018 An Algerian court has ordered a church in the northern Tizi Ouzou province to close because it lacks the necessary permit, reports Christian…
EGYPT – Egypt Bus Attack Survivors ask ‘How could this happen again?’
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 23, 2018 Egypt’s Copts are still reeling from a second bus attack in two years on the desert road to a monastery in Minya and asking why there was…
IRAN – Two Iranian Converts Arrested and Taken to Unknown Locations
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 21, 2018 Two Iranian Christian converts have been taken by Iran’s security agents from the houses they were staying in Karaj and Mashhad on Friday,…
IRAQ – 350 Christian Homes Illegally Seized in Iraq
International Christian Concern | Nov. 21, 2018 An investigation by an Iraqi media source, al-Sumaria, revealed that at least 350 Christian owned properties have illegally been seized. The government has…
EGYPT – Egypt: Man accused of IS Allegiance sentenced to death for killing Coptic Doctor
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 20, 2018 An Egyptian court sentenced a man to death last Saturday, 17 November, for the killing of an 80-year old Christian doctor in Cairo…
IRAN – .Iranian Intelligence Intercepts Christians
International Christian Concern | Nov. 19, 2018 Middle East Concern reports that last week two Iranian Christian converts from Karaj, which is just northwest of Tehran, were prevented from meeting…
EGYPT – Egypt Sentences ISIS Supporter to Death for murdering Christian Doctor
The Daily Caller | Nov. 18, 2018 Egyptian authorities sentenced a man accused of supporting ISIS to death Saturday for the 2017 murder of a Christian doctor in Cairo. Prosecutors…
IRAQ – Christians Report Extortion Threats in Ankawa
International Christian Concern | Nov. 18, 2018 Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) law enforcement officials have arrested four individuals accused of threatening violence to extort money from residents of Erbil’s Ankawa…
EGYPT – Will Egypt Remove Religion from ID Cards?
International Christian Concern | Nov. 17, 2018 An Egyptian Member of Parliament is drafting a bill which would remove religion from the national ID cards, according to al-Bawaba News. While…
JORDAN – Jordan’s King Receives Templeton Prize
International Christian Concern | Nov. 15, 2018 King Abdullah II of Jordan traveled to the US to officially receive the 2018 Templeton Prize for his efforts at achieving interfaith harmony…
EGYPT – Christianity crackdown: Horror as ‘man with sharp tool’ attacks prayer service – ‘Awful’
Sunday Express | Nov. 15, 2018 CHRISTIANS in Egypt were attacked during a prayer service by a man wielding a “sharp tool” and shouting Islamic slogans. According to Egyptian Sunday…
IRAN – Persecution and Grace Fill Iran’s Streets
International Christian Concern | Nov. 14, 2018 The massive waves of unrest which have plagued Iran this past year point toward the people’s frustration with the moral and economic bankruptcy…
IRAN – Iranian Clerics Single Out Evangelical Christianity
International Christian Concern | Nov. 12, 2018 Mohabat News reports, that inside Iran, fresh media attacks singling out evangelical Christianity have been on the rise. This latest wave is because…
MIDDLE EAST – ‘Next time we will not survive’ – Middle East Christian Refugee
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 12, 2018 As many as 80% of Syria’s Christians have left their country since the start of the civil war in 2011, while 50% of…
EGYPT – A Bloodbath for Christians, No Response from Egypt
Raymond Ibraham | Nov. 12, 2012 On Friday, November 2, heavily armed Islamic terrorists ambushed and massacred Christians returning home after visiting an ancient monastery in the desert. Seven pilgrims—including a 12-year-old girl and…
EGYPT – Egypt Church Officials Say Requests for Security Went Unheeded
International Christian Concern | Nov. 8, 2018 In a statement released on Tuesday, Egyptian church officials directly contradicted the account of the State Information Service regarding the Nov. 2nd attack against…