Nigerian Boko Haram Islamic terrorists release Catholic priest Father David Echioda
Father David Echioda has been freed from his kidnappers in Otukpo, Nigeria on March 1. He was abducted at gunpoint by Boko Haram, a militant terrorist group aimed at making Nigeria a Muslim state. Christianity is More...
Pakistan professor Junaid Hafeez convicted for blasphemy laws over Facebook remarks about Muhammad
On December 21, Junaid Hafeez, a Muslim lecturer at the University of Bahauddin Zakriya in Multan, was sentenced to death by a trial court in Multan after being convicted under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws. More...
Boko Haram kidnaps six girls, two Christian school workers
The Islamic extremists in Nigeria, Boko Haram, have terrorized the region for years and again has kidnapped little girls. From the local report: Boko Haram logo photo/Arnold Platon via wikimedia commons A day before More...
US joins opposition to UN sanctions against al-Shabaab due to restrictions on aid to Kenya, refugees
Six UN Security Council members on Wednesday blocked a move to include Somali jihadist group Al-Shabaab on a list of organizations such as Al-Qaeda that are under international sanctions, diplomatic sources said. Several More...
Awais Chudhary Planned Attack in Queens Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIS
A criminal complaint filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charged Awais Chudhary, 19, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and More...
Iraqi Church Defaced by ISIS Rededicated
(International Christian Concern)– When ISIS invaded the Iraqi Christian city of Qeraqosh in 2014, they destroyed every symbol of Christianity that they found. The Church of Mar Behnam and Mart Sarah was one of More...
Defendant, Azizjon Rakhmatov Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS
Azizjon Rakhmatov, a citizen of Uzbekistan and resident of New Haven, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic State More...
Bernie Sanders doubles down: climate change bigger national security threat than ISIS, Al Qaeda, Trump is an idiot for being skeptical
2020 presidential candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said climate change represents a bigger threat to national security than ISIS or Al Qaeda during a campaign speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Sunday. “Four More...
ISIS Claims Responsibility for Car Bomb Detonated Outside Church in Northeast Syria
(International Christian Concern) –A car bomb was detonated outside the Virgin Mary Church in Qamishli, a city in Northeast Syria, injuring eleven. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. Communications More...
Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in Syria car bombed, at least 7 killed or injured
(International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on July 11, 2019, a car bomb exploded next to the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in the Syrian city of Qamishli. The Assyrian More...
Only 40 Christians Returned to Mosul after Defeat of ISIS
(International Christian Concern) –Mosul’s only priest, Father Imanuel Adel Kloo, has reported that only 40 of the 15,000 Iraqi Christians who used to live in the city have returned home. Mosul was captured More...
Houston Man, Kaan Damlarkaya Convicted on Terrorism Charges
A 20-year-old U.S. citizen from Houston has entered a guilty plea to attempting to provide material support to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, announced U.S. More...
Brooklyn Man, Mohamed Naji Sentenced to 20 Years for Attempting to Join ISIS in Yemen
Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Mohamed Rafik Naji was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Frederic Block for attempting to provide material support or resources to More...
South Carolina Man, Zakaryia Abdin Sentenced for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Isis
Zakaryia Abdin, 20, of Ladson, South Carolina, was sentenced yesterday to 20 years to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham More...
Dallas Man, Said Azzam Mohamad Rahim Found Guilty of Conspiring to Support ISIS
A federal jury convicted a Dallas man on multiple terror charges, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced today. Following More...
Indonesia Police Arrests Terrorists Ahead of Plotted Attacks
(International Christian Concern) –Over the last weekend, the anti-terror squad of the Indonesian police arrested several and killed two terrorists belonging to ISIS-linked local group, weeks before their plotted More...
Boko Haram Killed 15 Soldiers and took Military Base in Nigeria
(International Christian Concern) –Late Friday evening, Boko Haram attacked a military base in Northeast Nigeria. During the attack, they killed at least 15 soldiers and injured more than 20 others. The rest of More...
Pakistan moves bill forward to set the minimum marriage age at 18
The Pakistani Senate has passed a bill to amend the Child Marriage Restraint Bill, 1929, and set the minimum marriage age at 18 years. The bill aims to “curb the menace of child marriage prevalent in the country More...
Tragedy in Sri Lanka: How Church Leaders and Members Can Respond to Secular Media
As the World Asks Why?, Christians Offer Hope Reports of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday tragedy have flooded the news, prompting some to ask if God forgot His people on the most sacred day of the Christian calendar. More...
Greenville Man, Michael Messer Looking to Join ISIS Sentenced to 10 Years
United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Michael Bruce Messer, Jr., age 51, of Greenville, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Greenville after pleading guilty to being a felon in More...