The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part IV: Lebanon — The Last Christian Stronghold of the Arab Middle East?October 5, 2026 — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette For generations, Lebanon was different. In much of the Middle East, Christians lived as minorities navigating political systems dominated by larger religious communities. In Lebanon,...
Punjab Panel Approves Bill to Reform Christian Marriage LawOctober 5, 2026 — A legislative committee in Pakistan’s Punjab province has unanimously approved a bill that would set the minimum age for Christian marriages at 18 for both partners, require official registration, and...
Plateau Governor Imposes Curfew After Pastor, 27 Others Killed in Week October 4, 2026 — David Nanpet, an eyewitness documenter with the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON), was monitoring reports of renewed attacks across Plateau state when he received news that a pastor had been...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part III: Syria — War, Displacement, and a Vanishing Christian Community October 2, 2026 — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On Sunday, June 22, 2025, Christians gathered for worship inside Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus. Families sat together, prayers were spoken, and...
Chinese Pastor Detained for ‘Organizing Illegal Religious Activities’ October 2, 2026 — An Yankui was at his home when officials arrested him at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 29 for an investigation on suspicion of “organizing illegal religious activities,” according to a police...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East Part II: Iraq — From Ancient Christian Homeland to ExodusOctober 2, 2026 — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On an ordinary August evening in 2014, Mariam was preparing dinner while her husband, Nabil, closed the small repair shop his family had owned...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part I: Can Christianity Disappear from the Land Where It Was Born?September 30, 2026 — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On a Sunday morning somewhere in the Middle East, an old church bell still rings. It may sound across a neighborhood in northern Iraq, an...
Nigeria Advances Police Reform as First Constitutional Amendment to Reach StatesSeptember 29, 2026 — Nigeria has taken an important step toward decentralizing its policing system after the National Assembly transmitted a constitutional amendment establishing state police services to all 36 state Houses of Assembly...
New Legislation Threatens Independent Documentation of Persecution in NigeriaSeptember 28, 2026 — Nigeria’s Senate is advancing legislation that could significantly expand government oversight of organizations receiving foreign funding, raising concerns that the measure could affect the ability of churches, humanitarian organizations, human...
Churches Restrict Entry of Non-Christians in Persecution-Hit RegionSeptember 28, 2026 — In an unprecedented development last week, more than 40 churches in the Dhamtari district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, India, declared that worship is restricted to Christians only,...
Conditions Worsen for Stateless Rohingya ChristiansSeptember 28, 2026 — The Rohingya are known largely as a Muslim ethnic group forcibly driven from Myanmar. But a small subset of Rohingya are Christian. Numbering about 1,500 in total, these Christians comprise...
Seven Letters from the Persecuted ChurchSeptember 25, 2026 — By International Christian Concern’s field leader for South Asia Recently, I traveled through Nepal, India, and Bhutan as part of our ministry to the persecuted church, meeting believers and listening...
Nigerian Pastor, Believer Killed on Their Way to ChurchSeptember 25, 2026 — A pastor and another believer on their way to worship God were among the 13 killed during the weekend in Plateau state, Nigeria. The pastor, his son, and a church worker...
Senators Lankford, King Honor Victims on CCP’s 105th AnniversarySeptember 25, 2026 — On Wednesday, the same day Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Washington to be feted by the United States, U.S. Senators James Lankford and Angus King introduced a bipartisan resolution...
Christian Educational Institutions in India Face Mounting PressureSeptember 22, 2026 — Elite Christian educational institutions in the Indian state of West Bengal are the latest targets of religious extremism in what seems to be a systematic dismantling of intellectual strongholds. While...
Divided and Dispossessed: How Sudan’s Government Targets the ChurchSeptember 22, 2026 — In Sudan, the battle for the soul of the church is not only fought with guns. It is also fought with court papers, administrative orders, and calculated division. For years,...
