New data shows nearly 200 Christians in Pakistan face blasphemy charges
(International Christian Concern) –New research by the Catholic Church in Pakistan has found that almost 200 Christians face charges under the country’s notorious blasphemy laws. Those accused face punishments More...
Iran’s persecution of Christians detailed in new report
(International Christian Concern) –A new report details how last year brought continued violation of religious freedom for Iranian Christians, cumulating in an unprecedented wave of raids targeting the underground More...
Iran judges tell Christians Saheb Fadaie and Fatemeh Bakhteri to renounce their faith
(International Christian Concern) –Iranian judges Hassan Babaee and Ahmad Zargar presided over the January 15th final appeal hearing for Christians Saheb Fadaie and Fatemeh Bakhteri. These two judges asked the More...
Egypt: President al-Sisi extends state of emergency, noting the Christmas Eve attack on a Nasr City church
(International Christian Concern) –Egypt has extended its nationwide state of emergency for yet another three months, marking the 7th time that the government has made such a decision. President al-Sisi first More...
Syria: President Bashar Assad says state will rebuild Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Deir Ezzor
(International Christian Concern) –The Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Deir Ezzor will be rebuilt with state funds, according to a pledge given by Syrian President Bashar Assad. The announcement was made More...
Germany: Home-school family Petra and Dirk Wunderlich will continue fight after officials took their children
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that German authorities did not violate a family’s fundamental rights when they forcibly removed the children from the family’s home because they were being More...
EU court to hear Tom Mortier case: Mother euthanized by doctor without telling family
The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to consider the case of Tom Mortier, whose mother received a lethal injection from a doctor who euthanized her for being depressed and did not inform her family. The More...
Human Rights Day: Pakistan should challenge the blasphemy laws, not entrench them
The Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS-UK) is calling upon the Pakistani Government to take steps to end the misuse of the Blasphemy Laws. The Pakistani Government should use Human Rights Day More...
Iran’s restricted legal access to prisoners called into question by civil rights activists
(International Christian Concern) –Earlier this year, Iran’s judiciary decided to force defendants held on political charges to pick their lawyer from a pre-approved list. Meanwhile, human rights attorneys continue More...
China’s Communist Party target members ‘who have religious faith’
(International Christian Concern) – In an effort to strengthen party ideology and better control its members, the central committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has published newly revised regulations More...
New UK Report: Child trafficking more than doubled in just one year
A shocking new report indicates that child trafficking case in the United Kingdom have increased by 66 percent from 2016 to 2017. According to the report, by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group, 2,118 minors More...
ICE extradited Nazi labor camp guard Jakiw Palij to Queens from Poland
Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York, has been removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Germany, Attorney General More...
San Francisco Mayor London Breed attacks homeless, shelters while promoting plan to teach them to clean up their own waste
The mayor of San Francisco is promoting the city’s plan to deal the thousands of pounds of feces that crowd her city’s streets, a multi-million dollar plan to teach the homeless to pick up their own More...
Jeh Johnson discusses detaining illegal immigrants during the Obama administration
The former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson explained during an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC how the Obama Administration expanded family detention of illegal immigrants in order to deal with More...
US exits UN Human Rights Council, Nikki Haley calls it a ‘cesspool of political bias’
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, pointing to the bias against Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers More...
Open Doors’ David Curry calls for President Trump to confront North Korea, Kim Jong Un about Christian persecution
David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors USA, issued this statement in advance of the planned summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un: “When President Trump More...
State Department stops describing West Bank as ‘occupied’ by Israel
The State Department’s annual report on human rights violations around the world was published on Friday and has dropped reference to the “West Bank” in Israel as “occupied” for More...
Pakistani Christian girl, Asma Yacoob, dies after acid attack and being set on fire
A 25-year-old Christian woman has died following being set alight for refusing a Muslim man’s marriage proposal. Asma Yacoob was doused in acid before being set on fire by Rizwan Gujjar, 30. She been working More...
Human Rights Watch reveals Lebanon is evicting thousands of Syria refugees
Lebanon is using force to evict at least 3,664 Syrian refugees from their homes and expelled them from the municipalities, at thirteen at this time, due to their nationality and/or religion. Human Rights Watch More...
CLAAS concerned about Pakistani court ordering citizens to declare religion
A Pakistani court has ruled that all citizens must declare their religion when applying for identity documents. Human rights advocates say the move is another blow for the country’s persecuted religious minorities. The More...