UN Panel Raps Iran Over Imprisonment Of Christian Pastor Saeed AbediniICC Note: A report from the United Nations Human Rights Council has highlighted the brutal conditions that Pastor Saeed Abedini has faced in the two years since he has been…
Mideast Christian Leaders Want Arabs To Be At The Front Against The Islamic StateICC Note: A gathering of Church leaders from the Middle East has again raised the plight of what they and their people are facing. Over the past 10 years, 10,000…
Sri Lanka’s Deportation of Christian Refugees Challenged in CourtICC Note: Beginning in August, the Sri Lankan government began an aggressive campaign of arresting and forcefully deporting refugees found in Sri Lanka. Many of these refugee come from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran…
China’s Anhui Provincial Government Shuts Down Church-Run SchoolICC Note: ChinaAid reports that authorities in China's Anhui province shut down and demolished Shunchang School, a private and church-run school, in early September. It is reported that, even though…
Two Pastors Murdered in Massacre of More than 100 Central African CiviliansICC Note: Two pastors in the Central African republic have been killed, along with more than 100 civilians, by members of Seleka, a radical Islamic coalition force that over through…
Christian Persecution in India Escalating to Disturbing New HeightsICC Note: Since the Hindu nationalist party BJP won a landslide victory in India in May this year, Christians and other religious minorities have endured a new wave of persecution…
Nightmare Continues for Family of Freed Prisoner of Conscience in ChinaICC Note: China’s human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, was released from prison last month. However, according to the article, Gao was repeatedly tortured in the prison and is now suffering…
Red Cross Confirms Talks to Swap Boko Haram Militants for the Chibok GirlsICC Note: Reports confirm that the International Committee of the Red Cross is involved in sit-down meetings between the Nigerian government and a senior Boko Haram commander to negotiate a…
Chaldean Bishop: ISIS Wants to Rip Christians From Their RootsICC Note: “ISIS wants to rip Christians from their roots in Iraq and Syria,” said Bishop Warduni about the persecution facing Christians. Christians have been living in these lands for…
Diyabiya Copts Obliged To Worship In Church CourtyardICC Note: A congregation in Egypt is now forced to worship in the church courtyard because its building was badly burned by Islamic fundamentalists and the government has prevented them…
India Marks Sixth Anniversary of the 2008 Anti-Christian Orissa Riots with ApathyBy ICC’s India Correspondent 9/17/2014 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) - The 2008 anti-Christian riots that swept across Orissa’s Kandhamal district still stand as one of the worst incidents of…
al-Shabaab Losing 30 Members a Day to Amnesty and Rehabilitation ProgramICC Note: For decades, Somali Christians have suffered a genocidal campaign against their existence by the radical Islamic insurgency known as al-Shabaab. In recent years, the group's authority in the region has waned,…
Boko Haram On Course to Parallel What ISIS Has Achieved in Iraq and SyriaICC Note: Recognition that an American was reportedly one of many targeted in Boko Haram's bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria in August of 2011 could have…
Pakistan Declared as Unsafe for Religious MinoritiesICC Note: In a lecture held at Columbia University, an expert on Pakistan declared that it is a country in which religious minorities, including Christians, are unsafe. This aspect of…
Three Suspects Arrested in Connection to Assault on Catholic Priest in IndiaICC Note: Since the Hindu nationalist party called BJP took power over the Indian government in May, it is estimated that there have been over 600 attacks on non-Hindu. Among these…
UN Takes Over Peacekeeping in the Central African RepublicICC Note: Monday, United Nations (UN) peacekeepers began the process of taking over the mission in the Central African Republic from their African Union counterparts. Even with the deployment of an…
