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…
TURKEY – Erdogan’s agenda: Neo-Ottoman ambition or pan-Islamist zeal?
The Jerusalem Post | Lela Gilbert | June 28, 2020 Turkish aggression in at least five countries has been headlined in international news reports just this month, June 2020. These…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BREAKING – Iran fires milles at US bases in Iraq
Iran fires TENS of ballistic missiles at US bases in Iraq in operation 'Martyr Soleimani' after promising 'crushing revenge' for Trump's decision to kill the top general in drone strike…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
MIDDLE EAST – ACN announces million-pound aid package for Middle East Christians
Independent Catholic News | March 11, 2019 ACN project partner Sr Annie Demerjian with Lucine, 85, from Aleppo, Syria, and volunteer Fadi. © Aid to the Church in Need Source:…
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…
WOMEN – For persecuted Christian women, violence is compounded by ‘shaming’
WorldWatch Monitor | March 8, 2019 A Christian woman at a 2018 support conference in Ethiopia. A new report claims that the persecution of Christians is gender-specific, not gender-blind. Photo:…
MESOPOTAMIA – Yazidis held captive by ISIL reunite with their families in Iraq
Aljazeera | March 2, 2019 A group of Yazidi women and children are reunited with their families in Iraq after five years in captivity at the hands of ISIL group fighters. They hug and kiss relatives…
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…
IRAQ – Sale of Churches Sparks Controversy in Iraq
International Christian Concern | Jan. 8, 2019 The sale of churches and potential corruption regarding the resulting funds has sparked fresh controversy in Iraq. This comes as three churches have…
IRAQ – The New Threat Iraq’s Christians
Real Clear Politics | Dec. 24, 2018 In March of 2017, with the battle for control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, raging just miles away, I was driven into…
IRAQ – Iraqi Curriculum Incites Violence Towards Religious Minorities
International Christian Concern | Dec. 23, 2018 Archbishop Louis Raphaël I Sako of Iraq’s Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon has asked the Ministry of Education to review offensive statements which exist…
IRAN – Iranian Christians Assaulted and Disappeared
International Christian Concern | Dec. 17, 2018 Earlier this month, Iranian media announced a widespread detainment of Christians across the country. ICC reported how over 100 Christians were detained by the Iranian…
IRAQ – Rural Iraq Devastated by ISIS
International Christian Concern | Dec. 16, 2018 Amnesty International has released a new report describing how the Islamic State (ISIS) used a scorched earth policy to devastate rural Iraq. This…
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…