PGI Concerned about the Lack of Progress for Aceh Churches’ Building Permit

July 25, 2021 — 07/25/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – A recent video of a church congregating under thatched roofs and tarpaulins in Aceh Singkil Regency has gone viral in the country. This church’s...

Jihadist Group Kills 16 in the DRC

July 25, 2021 — ICC Note: Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of State designated ADF as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and categorized them as ISIS-DRC. The group has the primary aim of creating an Islamic...

Police Clarify No Burning of Church in North Sumatra

July 24, 2021 — 07/24/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – The Indonesian police clarify that a recent brawl did not specifically target a local church, although the church was affected. A brawl that took...

Chinese Authorities Interrupt Virtual Church Service

July 23, 2021 — 07/23/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – Last week, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials reportedly interrupted a church service held virtually over zoom. During the morning of July 11, CCP security...

Burmese Soldiers Not Brought to Justice For Rape and Murder of a Kachin Woman

July 22, 2021 — 07/22/2021 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – The Burmese military has detained three soldiers to investigate a crime against a 55-year-old ethnic Kachin woman named Khaw Ywe. The soldiers are accused...

Series of Jihadist Attacks Displace 20,000 in DR Congo

July 22, 2021 — In a July 16 press briefing in Geneva, UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch stated that 20,000 people have recently been displaced in DRC’s North Kivu province, due to attacks from a Jihadists...

Chinese Officials Raid a Christian Funeral, Remove Christian Symbols

July 21, 2021 — 07/21/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – Recently, a house church in Guiyang City, Guizhou province hosted a memorial service for an elderly Christian at a local funeral home. Before the...

3,462 Christians Killed in Nigeria in 200 days, 3000 Abducted, 300 Churches Attacked

July 21, 2021 — 07/21/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – The International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), a nonprofit based out of Nigeria, has released a report in which...

Indonesian Security Forces Kill A Senior MIT Militant

July 20, 2021 — 07/20/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – Last week, Indonesian security forces conducted a raid in Central Sulawesi province that killed two suspected members of pro-Islamic State terror group Eastern Indonesia...

Chinese Pastors Ordered to Preach on Xi Jinping’s Speech

July 20, 2021 — 07/19/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have ordered pastors belonging to the state-controlled body of the Protestant Church to study and preach President Xi Jinping's...

Christian Farming Villages Continue to be Destroyed in Nigeria

July 19, 2021 — 07/19/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – More than 11,000 people were displaced from 16 different villages last week in the Miango community of Nigeria’s Plateau State. Militant Fulani Herdsmen were...

Chinese Street Preacher Released After Being Held Under Surveillance

July 17, 2021 — 07/17/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – On June 19, Zhejiang Province’s state security officers arrested Chen Wensheng, a Christian from Hengyang City, Hunan province. After transporting him back to Hengyang,...

Fate of Imprisoned Chinese Bishop Still Unknown

July 16, 2021 — 07/16/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – The bishop of Xixiang (Henan province), Joseph Zhang Weizhu was arrested in May alongside ten priests and seminarians at a Catholic seminary. His fate...

The US Calls Out Myanmar and China in a Genocide Report

July 15, 2021 — 07/15/2021 Myanmar, China (International Christian Concern) – The Biden administration renewed allegations of genocide and atrocities against China and Myanmar in a latest report by the Department of State. The...

Indonesian Police Hunting for Pro-Islamic State Militant Suspects

July 14, 2021 — 07/14/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – In Indonesia, security forces are hunting for three suspected members of an Islamic-State affiliated terrorist group. The suspects escaped a raid that killed two...

China’s Latest Ban of Christian Content on Social Media

July 13, 2021 — 07/13/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – In a recent crackdown on online Christian content, the Chinese government banned the WeChat accounts belonging to many registered churches. WeChat is a popular...