Central Kalimantan Governor Backs Efforts to Rebuild Burned ChurchMay 21, 2025 — 5/21/2025 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — The governor of Central Kalimantan, Agustiar Sabran, on April 12 laid the first stone for the construction of the Kalimantan Evangelical Church (GKE) Maranatha...
Odisha Christians Increasingly Denied Burial Rights May 21, 2025 — 5/21/2025 India (International Christian Concern) — Last week, villagers in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district opposed the burial of a deceased Christian, claiming a Christian funeral would defile the gods and the...
ICC Releases Emergency Petition to Help Iranian Christians Seeking AsylumMay 20, 2025 — 5/20/2025 United States (International Christian Concern) — Artemis Ghasemzadeh, an Iranian-Christian convert who fled persecution in Iran, has less than three weeks to find a country that will grant her asylum....
Bill Inspired by Iranian Christian Refugee Introduced in CongressMay 20, 2025 — 5/20/2025 United States (International Christian Concern) — A new bill inspired by the story of Artemis Ghasemzadeh, a 27-year-old Iranian-Christian convert deported four months ago by the Trump administration, was...
Myanmar Junta Strikes School, Ratchets up Propaganda MachineMay 19, 2025 — 5/19/2025 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) — An air strike last week has, yet again, shined a spotlight on the cruel tactics used by the military junta ruling Myanmar. The strike,...
Faces of the Persecuted | The Shenzhen Holy Reformed ChurchMay 19, 2025 — Throughout the month of May, you will come face to face with the reality of persecution through the stories of seven courageous believers ICC helped rescue. They are not just...
Investigations of ‘Forced Conversions’ in Madhya Pradesh Spark Concern Among ChristiansMay 15, 2025 — 5/15/2025 India (International Christian Concern) — Police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on May 6 to probe allegations of forced religious...
Faces of the Persecuted | PranathiMay 15, 2025 — Throughout the month of May, you will come face to face with the reality of persecution through the stories of seven courageous believers ICC helped rescue. They are not just...
60 Years Later, Complete Bible Translated in Contentious Indonesian Province May 14, 2025 — Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — After 60 years of faithful work across two generations of one family in missions, the Bible has been fully translated into the Ngalik language in...
ICC Releases Report Highlighting Mauritania’s Complex Religious Freedom May 14, 2025 — 5/14/2025 Mauritania (International Christian Concern) — In a newly released country brief, International Christian Concern (ICC) explores the nuanced and often overlooked reality of religious freedom in Mauritania, one of...
Pope Leo XIV Inherits Tense State of Affairs for the Catholic Church in China May 13, 2025 — 5/13/2025 China (International Christian Concern) — Much has been written about Pope Leo XIV’s role in restoring unity to a Catholic church globally divided along theological and political lines. From...
Iranian Christian Refugee in Panama Faces Deadline to Find AsylumMay 13, 2025 — 5/13/2025 Panama (International Christian Concern) — After spending three months in Panama, a 27-year-old Iranian woman is still praying and searching for a safe country to accept her. And her...
Faces of the Persecuted | YasminMay 12, 2025 — Throughout the month of May, you will come face to face with the reality of persecution through the stories of seven courageous believers ICC helped rescue. They are not just...
After Waiting 45 Years, Church Building Permit Rejected Again May 9, 2025 — 5/9/2025 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — After an astounding 45 years of waiting for a building permit, Catholics in Bulukumba Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, were told yet again that they...
Global Executions on the Rise in a Trend Led by the World’s Top Persecutors May 9, 2025 — 5/9/2025 United States (International Christian Concern) — Amnesty International, a human rights watchdog group, last month released its annual report on global executions. The report documented 1,518 executions in 2024...
Chinese Christian Media Ordered to Include More Communist PropagandaMay 9, 2025 — 5/9/2025 China (International Christian Concern) — China’s only legal church, the Communist Party-controlled Three Self Patriotic Movement (TPSM), has been ordered to publish more communist propaganda in its “Christian" media....
