4 of 5 Most Populous Countries Persecute Christians

August 8, 2025 — 8/8/2025 Asia (International Christian Concern) — Four of the five most populous countries in the world share a disturbing reality: Christians are systematically and harshly persecuted within their borders. China...

Getting God’s Word into the Hands of Secret Believers in Southeast Asia

August 8, 2025 — 08/08/2025 Southeast Asia (International Christian Concern) – How many Bibles do you have at home? Maybe you have an app on your device with the Scriptures on it. So many of...

9 Killed in Attacks on Nigeria’s Christian Farming Communities

August 6, 2025 — 8/6/2025 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — At least nine people, including a police officer, were killed between Aug. 1-5, in a series of coordinated attacks on villages in Agatu County...

Goa’s Chief Minister Calls for Anti-Conversion Law

August 4, 2025 — 8/4/2025 India (International Christian Concern) — The chief minister of Goa called for an anti-conversion law to address what he described as an issue of forced conversions in the state....

Christian Man Dies After Years of Neglect in Prison

August 4, 2025 — 8/4/2025 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — Nabeel Masih, a 25-year-old Christian from Lahore, died on July 31 after years of neglect, abuse, and lack of crucial medical care. At 16,...

Triumph After Tragedy

August 4, 2025 — 8/4/2025 DRC (International Christian Concern) — In the evening of Feb. 26, 2024, al-Shabab militants entered Joseph’s village in Lamu county, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), looting homes, stealing...

Faithfulness Rewarded

August 1, 2025 — 8/1/2025 India (International Christian Concern) — Pastor Rakesh and his family of six live in a small village in northern India, where he leads a church of only a few...

ICC Partners with IIRF to Support Violent Incidents Database

July 31, 2025 — 7/31/2025 United States (International Christian Concern) — Earlier this month, International Christian Concern (ICC) partnered with the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) to support their Violent Incidents Database (VID)....

Forced Out: Christians Increasingly Evicted from Their Homes in Chhattisgarh

July 30, 2025 — 7/30/2025 India (International Christian Concern) — Three years ago, Manu, a 37-year-old day laborer in Chhattisgarh, India, came to faith in Jesus after experiencing a miraculous healing. Then, roughly two...

Christian Convert Charged with Terrorism in Egypt

July 30, 2025 — 7/30/2025 Egypt (International Christian Concern) — Egyptian authorities charged Saeid Mansour Abdulraziq, a Christian convert from Islam, with terrorism on July 22 after he requested his identification papers be changed from...

Pastors Increasingly Targeted, Harassed in Cuba

July 29, 2025 — 7/29/2025 Cuba (International Christian Concern) — Pastor Maikel Pupu Velázquez vanished about 14 hours after delivering epilepsy medication to an acquaintance’s granddaughter on July 9 in Cuba. Velázquez delivered the...

Catholic Nuns Arrested at Train Station in Chhattisgarh

July 29, 2025 — 7/29/2025 India (International Christian Concern) — Two Catholic nuns were arrested on July 25 at Durg train station in Chhattisgarh, India, on charges of conversion and human trafficking. A young...

Pakistan Court Denies Muslim Man Custody of Christian Girl

July 28, 2025 — 7/28/2025 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — In a breakthrough with Pakistan’s legal system, a court denied custody of a Catholic girl to a Muslim man who had kidnapped her and...

Several Men Attack Prayer House in Indonesia

July 28, 2025 — 7/28/2025 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — A group of Muslim men forcibly disrupted worship and religious education activities at a prayer house belonging to the Indonesian Faithful Christian Church’s (GKSI)...

27 Christians Buried Following Fulani Militia Attacks in Nigeria’s Plateau State

July 28, 2025 — 7/28/2025 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — The bodies of 27 people killed during an overnight assault on a Christian farming community in central Nigeria’s Plateau state were laid to rest...

Nearly 40 Christians Killed in ADF Attack in Komanda, DRC

July 28, 2025 — 7/28/2025 DRC (International Christian Concern) — The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) struck the town of Komanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Ituri Province late Saturday night into...