Indonesian City to Church: Go Away!

November 5, 2012 — CITY TO CHURCH: GO AWAY! ICC Note: This is another article covering the forced closure of churches across Indonesia, including the case of GKI Yasmin. Christian churches being forced to...

New Book Provides Insight into Plight of North Korean Christians

November 5, 2012 — KEEPING THE FAITH IN NORTH KOREA ICC Note: With so little information coming from the totalitarian state of North Korea, it is rare that Christians in the West are able...

14 Year Old Christian Girl Abducted in Egypt

November 5, 2012 — Coptic Christian Girl, 14, Abducted By Muslim in Egypt ICC Note: Sarah Ishaq Abdelmalek, a 14-year-old Christian girl, disappeared at a bookshop on September 30 in what was believed to...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Says new Constitution Must be Based on Islamic Shariah Law

November 5, 2012 — ICC Note: It is becoming increasingly clear that the Muslim Brotherhood is committed to enshrining Islamic Sharia law as the main source of legislation in Egypt. Among other concerns is...

Egypt’s Coptic Christian Church Chooses new Pope for Uncertain Times as Islamists Gain Power

November 5, 2012 — ICC Note: Coptic Christians in Egypt named a new pope Sunday to “spiritually guide the community through a time when many fear for their future with the rise of Islamists...

Christian Woman Jailed for Blasphemy Released on Bail

November 5, 2012 — Pakistani Christian woman in jail for blasphemy released on bail ICC Note: Shamim Bibi, a Pakistani Christian arrested for blasphemy, was released on bail in Bahawalpur yesterday. Aneeqa Maria, an...

Nigerian Christians Ask the World for Prayer

November 5, 2012 — ICC Note: Christians in Nigeria are asking Christians around the world to pray for an end to the violence in Nigeria. The situation for Christians in Nigeria has continued to...

Congressman Asks Why Major American Churches are Silent on Persecution

November 5, 2012 — ICC Note: Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia, a career advocate for international religious freedom and one of its most vocal supporters, is asking why so many churches in America seem...

Muslim Pressure Closes Church in Indonesia

November 5, 2012 — ICC Note: The forced closure of churches in Indonesia, especially in Aceh province and the island of West Java, has become a rampant issue over the past several years. On...

Religious Extremism Threatens Indonesia’s Christians

November 5, 2012 — ICC Note: Although the Indonesian government has been cracking down on terrorist groups around the country for the past ten years, extremist religious groups still threaten the freedoms of religious...

Pakistani Muslim Turns to Christ

November 4, 2012 — Pakistani Muslim airforceman turns to Christ ICC Note: The Bible Society tells the encouraging testimony of Siddique Paul, a former Muslim who came to faith in Jesus despite great opposition,...

Arab Spring Threatens the Existence of Ancient Christian Communities in the Middle East

November 4, 2012 — LOOK ALIVE TO STAY ALIVE, CHRISTIANS TOLD ICC Note: Christians in Iraq, Syria, and throughout the Middle East have been the killed, kidnapped, and driven from their homeland “by the...

Egypt’s Christians Complain of Persecution and Discrimination

November 4, 2012 — AFRICA/EGYPT - The Coptic Church complains of persecution and discrimination ICC Note: While several Christians have been jailed in Egypt in recent weeks for allegedly ‘insulting Islam’, no action has...

Pakistan Fails to Protect Religious Freedoms, Human Rights

November 4, 2012 — Pakistan says protects rights, West disagrees ICC Note: While Pakistani officials told the United Nations on Tuesday that it is working to protect human rights, the US disagrees. "We have...

The Plight of Syria’s Christians: ‘We left Homs because they were trying to kill us’

November 3, 2012 — ICC Note: “We left because they were trying to kill us," Noura Haddad, an 18-year-old Syrian Christian, told The Independent. "They wanted to kill us because we were Christians. They...

What Will Become of the Middle East’s Christians?

November 3, 2012 — ICC Note: Like the Jewish people who fled Yemen and other Middle Eastern countries in the 1940s and early-50s, the plight of Christians from the region has now followed suit,...