Egyptian Monastery Land Confiscated By GovernmentJune 5, 2021 — 06/05/2021 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – St. Markarius Monastery in Alexandria, Wadi El-Rayan had land annexed by the government on May 30th. Authorities confiscated the land with the support of police...
Pastor Thanks God for Life Saving Emergency Aid During COVID CrisisJune 5, 2021 — 06/05/2021 India (International Christian Concern) – “I was not in a position to purchase food and feed my family,” Pastor Yesu Ratnam recently said to International Christian Concern (ICC), who...
Members of Congress Send Letter to USCIRF Condemning Turkey for Religious Freedom ViolationsJune 4, 2021 — 06/04/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) - Yesterday, a bipartisan group of seven U.S. Representatives sent a letter to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) expressing their...
Stakeholders to Gather for the 2021 International Religious Freedom SummitJune 4, 2021 — 06/04/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) – The civil society-led 2021 International Religious Freedom Summit is attracting a number of significant stakeholders from across the country to highlight persecution issues...
Nigeria: ‘One of the Most Terrorized Nations on Earth’June 4, 2021 — 06/04/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern)- Nigerian women anguished at the ongoing violence in their country released a statement on Thursday, calling for citizens to band together in the fight against...
COVID-19 Restrictions Allow Vietnamese Authorities to Crack Down on House ChurchesJune 4, 2021 — 06/04/2021 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – On May 26, a couple who attended a meeting place of the Revival Ekklesia Mission (REM) went to the Gia Dinh General Hospital because...
Historic Church Building Returned to EPA After a DecadeJune 4, 2021 — 06/04/2021 Algeria (International Christian Concern) – A church building in Mostaganem was returned to the Église Protestante d’Algérie (EPA), or Protestant Churches of Algeria, after nearly a decade of court...
Church Demolished by Hindu Nationalists with No ConsequencesJune 4, 2021 — 06/03/2021 India (International Christian Concern) – The families of Bodaguda village, Koraput, experienced yet another traumatic and discriminative showdown with Hindu nationalists. Last July, Hindu nationalists broke into their homes and...
70 People Killed This Week in Eastern DRCJune 3, 2021 — 06/03/2021 DRC (International Christian Concern) – The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a foreign terrorist organization and affiliate of ISIS, is suspected to be behind the massacre of 70 civilians in eastern...
USCIRF Condemns Turkish Bombing of Christian Village in IraqJune 3, 2021 — 06/03/2021 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – In the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 25, residents of Miska, a small Christian community in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq, were...
Indonesian Archbishop Survives Two Assassination PlotsJune 3, 2021 — 06/03/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – Indonesian archbishop Petrus Canisius Mandagi has stated that he has already been targeted twice this year by Islamic terrorists. The terrorists allegedly were planning...
U.S. Religious Freedom Report Highlights Pakistan’s Discrimination Towards ChristiansJune 3, 2021 — 06/03/2021 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern)- The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Office at the Department of State recently published its 2020 Annual Report. In this report, IRF has highlighted Pakistan...
U.S. International Religious Freedom Report Continues to Impact Indian Global ImageJune 3, 2021 — 06/03/2021 India (International Christian Concern) – The United States Department of State released its annual religious freedom report highlighting recent developments around the world. According to the report, India has...
Fund Spotlight: Ministering to the MessengersJune 3, 2021 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_single_image image="124680" img_size="full" add_caption="yes" alignment="center"] 06/03/2021 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – In many persecuted nations, pastors and ministry leaders risk their well-being and comfort to bring the Gospel to...
High Court in Pakistan Acquits Christian Couple on Death Row for BlasphemyJune 3, 2021 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"] Couple Finally Released After Being “Left to Die” on Death Row 06/03/2021 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the Lahore...
Is the Turkish Identity Threatened by Genealogy Discovery?June 3, 2021 — 06/03/2021 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – The Turkish DNA project, created to help Turks learn more about their genealogy, called for a boycott of Ancestry.com. In a now-deleted tweet, the group...