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Trump Announces CPC Designation for Nigeria
October 31, 2025 Nigeria — On Friday, President Donald Trump did something Christians around the world have been urging him to do since he took office. In a message on social media, Trump acknowledged the...
A New Season of Leadership at ICC
October 31, 2025 — I’m writing to you with deep gratitude and excitement as I begin my first day as President of International Christian Concern (ICC). For nearly three decades, ICC has stood as...
Trump-Xi Meeting Came Amid Heightened Religious Persecution in China
October 31, 2025 China, United States — Meeting for the first time in six years this week in Busan, South Korea, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted a closely watched meeting on a wide...
The Empty Creed of ‘No Beliefs’
October 30, 2025 — By Lisa Navarrette, ICC Fellow We live in an age obsessed with sensitivity yet strangely allergic to conviction. Everywhere, the message is clear: don’t have strong beliefs — someone might...
Persecution and Political Engagement
October 30, 2025 Ethiopia, North America, United States — By Dr. Greg Cochran, ICC Fellow Recently, The State of Theology Research Report, compiled by Ligonier Ministries, was released. In this latest study, most evangelical Christians (54%) agreed with...
From Hopeless to Hopeful
October 30, 2025 India — For a while, 9-year-old Badal had little interest in going to school. Coming from an economically challenged and socially discriminated community in India, Badal had lost hope of ever improving...
Religious Freedom Advocate Asks Why the Church Remains Silent on Persecution in Africa
October 30, 2025 — Joshua Williams, a religious freedom advocate with Open Doors International, spoke at the World Evangelical Alliance General Assembly on Oct. 28, urging U.S. churches to raise awareness of the plight...
Africa News
See All Africa NewsTrump Announces CPC Designation for Nigeria
October 31, 2025 ICC News — On Friday, President Donald Trump did something Christians around the world have been urging him to do since he took office. In a message on social media, Trump acknowledged the...
Persecution and Political Engagement
October 30, 2025 — By Dr. Greg Cochran, ICC Fellow Recently, The State of Theology Research Report, compiled by Ligonier Ministries, was released. In this latest study, most evangelical Christians (54%) agreed with...
Jihadists Abduct US Missionary in Niger
October 29, 2025 ICC News — Three armed men abducted American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout from his home in the middle of the night last week in Niamey, Niger. The suspected Islamic jihadists kidnapped 48-year-old Rideout,...
Nigeria’s Clergy Appeals to the U.S. Government to Intervene Amid Ongoing Attacks on Christians
October 27, 2025 ICC News — The Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, a respected clergyman with the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), has issued an urgent appeal to the United States government and the international community to...
Middle East News
See All Middle East NewsIranian Christian Convert Released from Prison
October 28, 2025 ICC News — Mina Khajavi, a 61-year-old Christian convert, was released from Iran’s Evin Prison on Oct. 20 after serving nearly two years in jail for activities related to her Christian faith. Khajavi,...
Türkiye Faces Legal Challenges for Deporting Christians
October 24, 2025 ICC News — Türkiye, formerly known as Turkey, is facing legal challenges after deporting foreign Christians and labeling them “national security threats.” Kenneth Wiest, an American Protestant, had lived in Türkiye with his...
Religious Registration Laws in the Middle East
October 16, 2025 — By Joseph Daniel, ICC Fellow I remember years ago when I filled out my first visa form in the Middle East, I paused at a line that startled me: “What...
5 Christians in Iran to Spend Several Years in Prison for Their Faith
October 10, 2025 ICC News — An Iranian court upheld the prison sentences for five Christian converts on Sept. 17. Each of the five believers will spend more than eight years in jail for activities related...
South Asia News
See All South Asia NewsFrom Hopeless to Hopeful
October 30, 2025 ICC News — For a while, 9-year-old Badal had little interest in going to school. Coming from an economically challenged and socially discriminated community in India, Badal had lost hope of ever improving...
Christian Missionaries Attacked in Jammu, India
October 27, 2025 ICC News — Eight police officers in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state were suspended for their failure to stop an attack on Christian missionaries by Hindu nationalists on Oct. 23. A group of...
A Way Out of Poverty for the Persecuted
October 22, 2025 ICC News, Project Highlight — Growing up as a Christian in India, Sunil witnessed his parents struggle endlessly to provide for their family. Despite his parents’ tireless work as unskilled laborers, Sunil had no...
Punjab Moves to Ban TLP as Years of Religious Violence Reach Breaking Point
October 21, 2025 ICC News — The Punjab government is moving to ban Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, or TLP, a far-right religious party that follows the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam. Formed in 2015 by Khadim Hussain Rizvi...
Southeast Asia news
See All Southeast Asia NewsTrump-Xi Meeting Came Amid Heightened Religious Persecution in China
October 31, 2025 ICC News — Meeting for the first time in six years this week in Busan, South Korea, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted a closely watched meeting on a wide...
Indonesian Church Resumes Worship Following Complaints from Local Muslims
October 20, 2025 ICC News — A few months ago, the church led by Pastor “Matias” in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, was shut down after 16 years of operation due to complaints from local Muslims. The...
USCIRF Condemns Detention of Church Leaders in China
October 17, 2025 ICC News — The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its detention of Christian pastors across China. On Oct....
Myanmar’s Military Rulers Admit Upcoming Election Will be Incomplete
October 17, 2025 ICC News — "We can't hold the election everywhere 100%," military junta chief Min Aung Hlaing admitted in a speech broadcast on state television this week. The admission — a gross understatement given...
Religious freedom in the west
See All The West NewsTrump-Xi Meeting Came Amid Heightened Religious Persecution in China
October 31, 2025 ICC News — Meeting for the first time in six years this week in Busan, South Korea, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted a closely watched meeting on a wide...
Persecution and Political Engagement
October 30, 2025 — By Dr. Greg Cochran, ICC Fellow Recently, The State of Theology Research Report, compiled by Ligonier Ministries, was released. In this latest study, most evangelical Christians (54%) agreed with...
Spanish Priest Acquitted in Legal Battle Over Criticism of Islam
October 24, 2025 ICC News, Press Release — A court in Spain acquitted a priest, the Rev. Custodio Ballester of Barcelona, last week after the man endured a legal battle lasting eight years for making comments against Islam...
Türkiye Faces Legal Challenges for Deporting Christians
October 24, 2025 ICC News — Türkiye, formerly known as Turkey, is facing legal challenges after deporting foreign Christians and labeling them “national security threats.” Kenneth Wiest, an American Protestant, had lived in Türkiye with his...
ICC Fellows
See All ICC Fellows NewsUpdate on Syria: A New Era or More of the Same for Syrian Christians?
September 19, 2025 ICC Fellows — By Linda Burkle, Ph.D., ICC Fellow Several years ago, while in Jordan, I had the privilege of participating in a feeding and grocery distribution program for Syrian refugees. We served...
Word Wrangling in the Sahel Region
May 8, 2025 ICC Fellows — By Dr. Greg Cochran, ICC Fellow One of the greatest half-truths ever unleashed on humanity was the pithy encouragement parents commonly passed down to their children: “Sticks and stones may...
The Refugee Camp Economy: How Refugee Camps Fuel Growth
March 24, 2025 ICC Fellows — 03/24/2025 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – When conflict and persecution happen, whole populations flee their homes, cross national borders, and end up in refugee camps. By 2030, more than 300...
Education Is Key: The Role of Education in Fostering Religious Tolerance
March 17, 2025 ICC Fellows — 03/17/2025 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – “Education is key,” they say. Education for religious tolerance can be effective in developing mutual respect and understanding among individuals from different religious...
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