Early Rain Covenant Church Member Interrogated, Elder Forced to Move

November 2, 2020 — 11/02/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – On October 26, a member of the heavily persecuted Sichuan church Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC) was summoned by the police, for he allegedly...

Terrorist Attack in Ethiopia’s Western Wollega Zone

November 2, 2020 — 11/02/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned of an attack in the Western Wollega Zone of Ethiopia’s Oromia region. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital city, is located...

How Religious Persecution Is a Driving Force Behind the Growing Need for Humanitarian Aid

November 2, 2020 — By Matias Perttula 11/02/2020 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) - In June of this year, while protests and violent riots ripped apart some cities across the United States, President Donald...

Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: October

November 2, 2020 —

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11/02/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Security related issues significantly defined much of the Nineveh...

Hope at Last for Victims of Forced Conversion in Pakistan

November 2, 2020 — By Matias Perttula 11/02/2020 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) - While cases of abduction, forced conversion and forced marriage continue to pile up in Pakistan, a glimmer of hope has surfaced...

High Court in Pakistan Orders Police to Recover Arzoo Raja

November 2, 2020 — 11/02/2020 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Pakistan’s Minister for Human Rights tweeted that the Sindh High Court has ordered Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Christian girl, be recovered by police and...

Cross Ripped from Syrian Church

November 2, 2020 — 11/02/2020 Syria (International Christian Concern) – Following Islamic prayers this past Friday, Islamists removed the cross of the Saint Sergius and Bacchus Greek Orthodox Church in the Syrian city of...

Leaders of Guizhou House Church Taken Away by the Police

November 1, 2020 — 11/01/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – On October 25, the pastor of Enguang Church in Guizhou’s Guiyang city and his wife were allegedly taken away from their home at night...

Report Details Growing Hostility Against Pakistan’s Religious Minorities Online

November 1, 2020 — 11/01/2020 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – According to the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), hate speech and hostility against religious minorities online in Pakistan grew in 2020. A recent...

Papuan Tribe Once Hostile to Missionaries Receives Bibles

October 31, 2020 — 10/31/2020 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – When the plane loaded with more than 2,000 Bibles recently landed in Indonesia’s Papua, the women of Yali tribe rejoiced as they received more...

Bringing the Gospel to the Frontlines of Persecution

October 31, 2020 — 10/31/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – If there's one thing I've learned in persecution ministry, it’s this: wherever Satan is spreading death and destruction, God is right there –...

Petition in Egypt Against Forcing Girls to Wear Hijab at School

October 31, 2020 — 10/31/2020 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – Following an incident at the Belbeis Language School in Egypt’s Sharkia Governorate, concern has been raised regarding the practice of some schools to force...

Christian Leaders in India Confront Anti-Christian Media Trend

October 31, 2020 — 10/31/2020 India (International Christian Concern) – According to the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), Christian leaders in India are confronting a new media trend in which fabricated stories are...

Another Pakistani Christian Girl Becomes Victim of Forced Conversion and Forced Marriage

October 30, 2020 — By Matias Perttula 10/30/2020 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) - Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, is the latest victim in the pattern of the kidnapping, forced conversion, and forced marriage...

Tensions in Ethiopia Impacting Religious Communities

October 30, 2020 — 10/30/2020 Ethiopia (International Christian Concern) – Tensions do not seem to be easing in Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country and home to over 80 distinct ethnic groups. The tensions are deep...

Pastor and Two Women in Nigeria Abducted by ISWAP, Video Released

October 30, 2020 — 10/30/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – A pastor and two women who went missing on October 19 were abducted by the Boko Haram faction known as the Islamic State West...