Indian Christians Endure at Least 10 Incidents of Religious Violence over Holy Week

April 9, 2018 — By ICC’s India Representative 04/09/2018 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The observance of Holy Week in India often highlights the country’s vulnerable Christian community. Prayer services, vigils, and processions...

Three Years after the Garissa University Attack, Trauma Still Lingers

April 3, 2018 — By Nathan Johnson 04/03/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Three years ago, 145 Christian students, two security guards and a military officer were brazenly and brutally massacred when a...

Exponential Increase in Attacks Against Christians in Telangana, India

March 22, 2018 — By ICC’s India Correspondent 03/22/2018 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The southern Indian state of Telangana is no exception to the growing religious intolerance sweeping India. Since January 18,...

A Voice Calls Out from the Hermit of Africa

March 20, 2018 — By Nathan Johnson 03/20/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – A friend of International Christian Concern (ICC), Joseph*, recently traveled to Eritrea and interviewed David*, one of the many underground...

Iraq’s Tribes and Christians: The Dangerous Solitude of Rights Erased

March 14, 2018 — By Claire Evans 03/14/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) - Iraq’s Christians have long pointed toward the absence of law as a significant driver of persecution. In the Nineveh Plains,...

Vandals Attack St. Zechariah Church in Palembang, Indonesia

March 9, 2018 — 03/09/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that shortly after midnight on March 8, a group of six vandals attacked St. Zechariah Church in...

Saint Maria Catholic Church Suffers Second Attack of the Year

March 8, 2018 — Church Repeatedly Targeted Since 2006 Assassination of Priest 03/08/18 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on March 6, 2018, a lone gunman shot...

Nigeria’s Middle Belt Report: Fulani Militants Continue Attacks into February 2018

March 7, 2018 — By Nathan Johnson 03/07/2018 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Following the brutality of January’s massacres in Benue and Adamawa, February may seem less severe for Christians in Nigeria’s Middle...

Marked for Life: The Long-Term Effects of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws

March 3, 2018 — By ICC’s Pakistan Representative 03/03/2018 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – False blasphemy accusations in Pakistan are often used to settle personal disputes, acquire property, exact revenge on a business...

Fulani Militants Burn Down Village, Including Pastor’s Home

February 20, 2018 — By Nathan Johnson 02/15/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – “See those ashes, they are my books!” Reverend Biri Gado Sunday pointed to a heap amid the ruins of his...

Pakistani Christian Teen Arrested for Sharing Allegedly Blasphemous Content on Facebook

February 20, 2018 — Hundreds of Christian Families Flee Potential Mob Violence 02/20/2017 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Patras Masih, an 18-year-old Pakistani Christian from Shahdra,...

Oppression of Iranian Churches Leads to Arrests—and Forgiveness

February 8, 2018 — By Claire Evans 02/07/2018 Iran (International Christian Concern) - This year marks the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the beginning of 39 years of a harsh Islamic regime that...

Nigeria’s Middle Belt Report: Fulani Militants and Boko Haram Wreak Havoc

February 7, 2018 — By Nathan Johnson 02/05/2018 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – In light of the ever escalating violence in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria, International Christian Concern (ICC) will be...

Anti-Christian Mob Violence Leaves Christians in Telangana, India Shattered

February 1, 2018 — By ICC’s India Correspondent 02/01/2018 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The persecution of Christians in India continues to escalate in a dramatic fashion. In just a single weekend, four...

Al-Shabaab Claim 20 Live in Attack on Hotel in Mogadishu

October 30, 2017 — ICC Note Al-Shabaab killed another 20 people in an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu. This follows only two weeks after 358 people were killed in a double truck bombing...