Pakistan Christian Amir Masih escapes blasphemy charges as Imams rally violence against Christians
On Saturday, October 26, Amir Masih, a Christian sanitation worker from Yousafabad, a small town near Faisalabad, was falsely accused of blasphemy. Fortunately, after local police intervened, the blasphemy charges More...
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani writes plea for help during hunger strike from Iran’s Evin Prison
Nearly one week has passed since Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has begun a hunger strike from Evin Prison, where he is serving a 10-year jail sentence. He began the hunger strike in response to the Education Ministry’s More...
Pastor Solomon of Uttar Pradesh harassed on social media, seeks police help dealing with trolls
Since September 15, Pastor Solomon of Uttar Pradesh has been subjected to social media harassment by members of right-wing Hindu organizations. The accusations made against him online, primarily of forced conversions, More...
Iran issues prison time for Christian converts: Asghar Salehi and Mohammad Reza Rezzaei
Three Iranian converts were sentenced to six months in prison after receiving charges of “propaganda against the system through promoting Zionist Christianity.” They were arrested last September during a series More...
Mustafa Rahimi arrested again for selling a Bible in an Iranian bookstore
Mustafa Rahimi, an ordinary shopkeeper and unassuming citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was recently arrested for an offense against the wellbeing of the country. His crime was the sale of a Bible from More...
Amir Masih family recount arrest, torture and death in Pakistan
According to Morning Star News, police in Lahore, Pakistan have tortured a 28-year-old Christian man to death. Amir Masih’s family claims he was illegally detained by police on August 28, tortured for four days, More...
Kachin Baptist leader Hkalam Samson seeks justice during Myanmar military lawsuit
The leader of the Kachin Baptist Convention, Rev. Hkalam Samson, was sued by a Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) officer on August 26 over comments he made regarding Christian persecution in Myanmar when he met with US More...
Iranian Christians Fatemeh Bakhteri and Saheb Fadaie jailed for ‘spreading progaganda’
As of a few short days ago, the second of two Iranian Christians was officially imprisoned by a religiously-biased national judiciary for her faith in Christ Jesus. In these past few years, the Christian community More...
Iran Targets Christian Refugees Families
(International Christian Concern) –Two married Iranian Christian refugees living in the United States have requested prayers for their family members who remain in Iran. They report that there has recently been More...
Imprisoned Pastor John Cao Moved to Kunmings Prison
(International Christian Concern) –On August 19, the mother of imprisoned pastor John Cao confirmed that her son has moved from Menglian detention center to a prison in Yunnan province’s capital city, Kunming. His More...
Sichuan Church Elder Li Yingqiang Released on Bail
(International Christian Concern) –International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that over the weekend, elder Li Yingqiang from Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Sichuan was released on bail and sent back More...
Christian Cho Yusang released from Nepal jail after arrest for handing out Bibles, leaflets
A 73-year old Christian, Cho Yusang was released from jail in Nepal on August 7, 2019 after being arrested for two weeks because he was allegedly forcefully converting Nepali locals. He was arrested on July 23, More...
China: officials arrest seven Christians at an electronics store, biblical audio products warrant ‘illegal business’
Seven employees at Shenzhen Cedar Electronics in China’s Guangdong province were arrested on July 22 for “illegal business operations,” according to Father Francis Liu from Chinese Christian fellowship of More...
China silent on Qin Derfu’s detention as wife Xiao Hongliu seeks answers
After her husband was arrested in the December 9th crackdown last year, the wife of a detained Christian from Sichuan’s Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) has been longing to hear about the update of her husband’s More...
Iranian Christian women Mahrokh Kanbari get one year in prison over ‘propaganda’ charge
A 65-year-old Iranian woman named Mahrokh Kanbari was sentenced to a year in prison after being charged with “propaganda against the system.” She was originally arrested before Christmas on the charge of “acting More...
Christian, Illyong Ju Relatives of North Korean Defector Killed for Sharing Gospel
(International Christian Concern) –At the State Department’s religious freedom ministerial last week, a North Korean defector shared what it’s like to live as a Christian in North Korea, telling President More...
Indias Unregistered Churches Caught in the Crosshairs
(International Christian Concern) –“For the first time in 45 years, I feel like I don’t have the right to live as a Christian in my own country,” Pastor Sheeja Thomas, a house church leader in Hyderabad, More...
Chinese Court Upholds Pastor John Caos Prison Sentence
(International Christian Concern) –International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on July 25, a court in China’s Yunnan province announced its decision to uphold Pastor John Cao’s seven-year prison More...
Christian, Fatemeh Azad Arrested Upon Return to Iran
(International Christian Concern) –A 58-year-old Iranian convert to Christianity who fled her country was denied asylum in Germany, and immediately arrested upon her deportation back to Iran. Fatemeh Azad reportedly More...
Christian girl Suneha Sajid raped by Muslim employer, then accused of theft, her whole family attacked
Suneha Sajid, a 14-year-old Christian girl, was falsely accused of stealing gold worth about 1,500,000 PKR ($9,312.00 USD) by her Muslim employer in Shahdara, Lahore on July 8, 2019. photo Applysense Shamim, Suneha’s More...
