Vietnam 6-year-old girl beaten after parents turn to Christianity
A six-year-old girl in Vietnam was savagely beaten because her parents decided to follow Christ, according to Christian persecution watchdog Open Doors UK. Phouc’s parents recently decided to stop the village More...
Myanmar military drops charges against Pastor Hkalam Samson
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on September 9, a Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) officer dropped a lawsuit against Kachin pastor Hkalam Samson. The lawsuit surrounded comments that Rev. Samson 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...
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...
Philippine President Duterte, No Need to Celebrate Arrival of Christianity
(International Christian Concern) –On Friday, Sept. 6, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte stated that there is no need to celebrate 500 years of Christianity in the Catholic majority country in 2021. Speaking More...
Hindu Radicals Demand Death for Organizers of Christian Film Screening in India
(International Christian Concern) –According to Morning Star News, around 100 Christians were attacked by Hindu radicals on August 23 for watching the Christian film “He Will Come Again” in the home of a More...
Saw Soe Ku shares the struggles of Christians in Myanmar, the Karen State, living in refugee camps
Ei Tu Hta is an Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp located on the border of Myanmar and Thailand, consisting of 2,400 Karen State IDPs. Most of these residents are Christian, living in a predominately Buddhist More...
Leah Sharibu Alive, Negotiations Ongoing
(International Christian Concern) –Only a month ago, a video was released showing 6 aid workers who had been kidnapped in Nigeria. In the video, a woman named Grace is talking about how she and the others were More...
Wife of Murdered Bible Translator, Eveline Fung in Stable Condition
(International Christian Concern) –Suspected Fulani militants attacked the village of Wum in Northern Cameroon on August 25. During this attack, the militants killed a bible translator, Angus Fung, who had helped More...
Widow in Uganda, Lezia Nakayiza Kicked out of Home Because of Her Faith
(International Christian Concern) –Lezia Nakayiza, a 54-year-old mother of seven, has had a very hard year. She lost her husband last September and was left to care for her children alone. Then this year, she 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...
Radical Hindu Nationalists Forcefully End Christian Gathering in India
(International Christian Concern) –On Sunday, September 1, activists from the Bajrang Dal, a youth wing of the Hindu nationalist Vishwa Hindu Parishad, forcefully ended a Christian prayer gathering in Worli Naka, More...
Pastor, Rolando Abejo in Southern Philippines Fears for Safety Over Red tagging
(International Christian Concern) –After posters and flyers were distributed last week branding him as a communist rebel, a pastor in southern Philippines has voiced concern over his safety. Father Rolando Abejo More...
Boko Haram Attacks Town in Chibok, Nigeria
(International Christian Concern) –On Saturday, Boko Haram invaded the Yimirmigza village in Kautikari ward, Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. According to the report given by a local resident to TheCable, More...
Government Official in Nigeria Claims Leah Sharibu is Alive
(International Christian Concern) –According to Morning Star News, a Nigerian government official has claimed that Leah Sharibu, a Christian teen kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2018, is still alive. This comes more More...
Asia Bibi Calls Attention to Other Blasphemy Cases in Pakistan
(International Christian Concern) –Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman formally sentenced to death under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws, has called attention to other blasphemy cases in her first interview 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...
Coptic Church in Egypt still fighting for its life
In an incredible court ruling in 2016, a centuries-old church was spared the axe and hammer of demolition in the Alexandria Administrative Court under the headship of Judge Muhammad Abdel-Wahab Khafagi. The decision, More...