Bible Institute Helps South Korea Open First Holocaust Museum May 23, 2025 — 5/23/2025 South Korea (International Christian Concern) — The Korea Israel Bible Institute (KIBI) opened South Korea’s first-ever Holocaust Museum in Palu, near the North and South Korean border. KIBI members...
Armenian Christian Pens Letter Detailing Abuses while Imprisoned in IranMay 23, 2025 — 5/23/2025 Iran (International Christian Concern) — Hakop Gochumyan, an Armenian Christian arrested in Iran in 2023 for his Christian faith, recently sent a letter to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) detailing...
Hope House: Changing Children’s Lives Through EducationMay 22, 2025 — 5/22/2025 India (International Christian Concern) — As a fourth grader, Samira struggled to grasp the basics of English, math, and other subjects. She quickly lost interest in school, and her grades...
Faces of the Persecuted | Huma YounusMay 22, 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...
Evangelicals Raise Concerns Over Religious Freedom After Duterte Bloc Surges in Philippine Midterms May 21, 2025 — 5/21/2025 Philippines (International Christian Concern) — After the Philippines’ midterm elections on May 12 handed the Duterte bloc a clear win, Christians expressed concerns about threats to religious freedom. Vice...
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...
