Indian Pastor Mukam Kiraad Charged with Illegally Practicing Medicine, can get three years in prison
According to Morning Star News, a pastor and two other Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state were arrested last month after being falsely accused of illegally practicing medicine. The foundation for the outrageous More...
China sentences Pastor Wang Yi to 9 years in prison for ‘subversion of state power’ and ‘illegal business’
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Pastor Wang Yi from Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) in Sichuan was sentenced to nine years in prison for “subversion of state power” and “illegal More...
Pastor Li Juncai jailed after fighting against China’s demand to remove cross from Zhongxin Church in Xinxiang
Pastor Li Juncai, along with three staff from Zhongxin Church in Xinxiang County, Henan, was criminally detained by local authorities on February 20, after having firmly resisted the cross removal at their church. 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 Elisha Noma Released by Kidnappers in Kaduna
(International Christian Concern) –Rev. Elisha Noma was abducted on Aug. 14 by people he says are armed Fulani herders. On August 14, around 1 am, these abductors broke into Rev Noma’s house and took him and More...
Persian Christian Ismail Falahati battling deportation from Turkey
Over the past few days, as cogs slowly turn in the machines of Turkey’s government, an order for the deportation a Persian pastor and his family, presently seeking asylum, back to Iran is being assembled. Ismail More...
Nepal: Tul Bahadur Pariyar, Rupa Sonam, Chandrakali Rawat, and Bhim Kumari arrested for preaching
According to The Annapurna Express, four Christians in Nepal have been arrested and charged under the country’s strict anti-conversion law. This report comes only days after authorities in Nepal released a 73-year-old More...
Ohio Pastor, Cesar Guerrero Charged with Coercing a Minor Female
The pastor of a Sharonville church has been charged federally with coercing a minor female in a criminal complaint that details interactions with two alleged victims. Cesar Agusto Guerrero, Jr., 41, of Liberty Township, More...
China Continues to Prevent Pastor Wang Yi from Meeting His Lawyer
Imprisoned Pastor Wang Yi from Sichuan’s Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) still has not been able to meet his lawyer, thanks to the Chinese government’s deliberate delays and obstruction. In the notice issued More...
Chinese pastor John Cao appeal will be a ‘trial session on paper only’
On July 12, the lawyers of jailed Chinese pastor John Cao, received a notice from the Pu’er Court in Yunnan province stating that Cao’s appeal would be handled via a “trial session on paper only” instead More...
Pakistan: Pentecostal Church Pastor Jadoon Masih acquitted from blasphemy charges
Jadoon Masih, a Pentecostal pastor who was arrested two years ago on charges of blasphemy, was acquitted on July 12, 2019 by the High Court in Lahore, Pakistan. Before his arrest, Masih was a pastor at Nasiri Pentecostal More...
Pastor Sunday Adelaja: From a Humble Beginning to a Greedy Ending
When pastors fall, they often fall hard. Such is the case with the once Nigerian Pastor of Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations Church in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday Adelaja. His church boasted the largest More...
Former Pennsylvania Pastor Jerry Zweitzig charged in child porn, child exploitation case
On Friday, May 31, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced, a Hatboro, Pennsylvania man was charged by indictment with multiple counts of child exploitation offenses, More...
Nepal: Pastor Dilliram Paudel, Christians arrested, US citizen Leanna Cinquanta deported for ‘converting through allurement’
On Tuesday, five Christians were arrested at a hotel in Nepal including two foreign citizens from India and the USA. One of the arrested was Pastor Dilliram Paudel, General Secretary of the Nepal Christian Society. More...
Chinese police assault jailed Pastor Wang Yi’s wife, Chen Yaxue over petty disagreement
(International Christian Concern) –The mother of imprisoned pastor Wang Yi, 74-year-old Chen Yaxue, was beaten up by Chengdu police after refusing to let them peek at her ATM password. Last Friday, when Chen went More...
Nepal Pastor Dharmendra Singh arrested for ‘charges of forced conversion’
(International Christian Concern) –On January 28, Pastor Dharmendra Singh, from Nepalganj, Nepal, was arrested by police in Rupaidiha village, located in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, on charges of forced conversion. More...
Christian Gathering Disbanded by Police in India Uttar Pradesh
(International Christian Concern) –On November 11, a regular Christian gathering of nearly 600 people was shut down by police in Pure Pande Pululiki village, located in the Pratapgarh district of India’s Uttar More...
Pastor in India Arrested for Attempting to Show Film about Jesus Christ
(International Christian Concern) –Last Saturday, December 9, Pastor Sojan was arrested and detained by police in Bakhtiyarpur village, located in the Patna district of India’s Bihar state. According to reports, More...
Hospital Treatment Denied to Vietnamese Pastor in Prison
(International Christian Concern) –International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Vietnamese pastor Nguyen Trung Ton has been denied medical care despite his deteriorating health. Prison authorities denied More...
Prison Officials in Vietnam deny medical care to imprisoned Pastor, Nguyen Trung Ton
(International Christian Concern) –A protestant pastor imprisoned in Vietnam’s Central Highlands is being denied both hospital treatment and medicine from his family. Critics say that the refusal to allow medical More...
