ICC Note In the Philippines, Marawi City has been under attack for almost two weeks. Islamic militants called the Maute Group, have found enough supplies to last them at least two more months. Therefore, the end is far from near, but a unity has formed between the Muslim and Christian neighbors in Marawi City as…
ICC Note: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recommended in its annual report that Pakistan be designated a “Country of Particular Concern” for its documented religious freedom violations. This would mean Pakistan would be ranked among many of the world’s worst persecutors of Christians such as North Korea and Eritrea. Making up…
ICC Note: Last Saturday, Ijaz Tariq, a Pakistani Christian refugee, died in a detention center in Thailand after being denied proper medical treatment. According to reports, Tariq complained of chest pain but was not allowed to go to the hospital. He died hours later. Many Pakistani Christian refugees in Thailand face a very difficult life.…
ICC Note In the Philippines, ISIS linked militants have taken hundreds of people hostage, many of them being Christians. The Muslim militants are staking their ground in parts of the city of Marawi, which could potentially lead to more attacks on Christians. A Catholic priest, assumedly kidnapped by the militants, stated that they are holding…
Survivors of Bloody Bus Attack in Cairo Reveal What Really Happened by George Thomas : May 30, 2017 : CBN News “America also makes clear to its friends, allies, and partners that the treasured and historic Christian Communities of the Middle East must be defended and protected. The bloodletting of Christians must end, and all…
Monday, May 29, 2017 | , Tag Cloud (Worthy News) – Egyptian fighter jets struck militant bases in eastern Libya late Friday in retaliation for an attack by masked gunmen on a caravan of Coptic Christians that left 28 people dead. In a televised address, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said his forces were hitting what…
ICC Note Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has called a security meeting in the wake of the deadly attack today against Coptic Christians traveling to a monastery to pray. This is another attack in a series of attacks against Coptic Christians that include the Church bombings on Palm Sunday. Although President Sisi condemned the rising violence…
05/26/2017 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that multiple masked gunmen attacked a caravan of Coptic Christians traveling to the Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor in Minya province, Egypt. Minya province is approximately 140 miles south of Cairo. Sources told ICC that two buses and two other vehicles…
CC Note This week, there was an attack on Marawi, a city in the Philippines, leaving at least 46 people dead. Jan Yamit, a health worker in the hospital just feet from the attack on Friday, said, “Those who were killed were Christians.” Leading up to the attack on Friday, ISIS led a raid on…
ChinaAid (Beijing—May 23, 2017) The youngest legal assistant arrested as part of a nationwide crackdown on human rights recently broke her silence to write an emotional letter to colleagues imprisoned with her, describing the enormous burden of the torture they endured and inviting them to join with her to end China’s abuses. In the letter,…
