Azerbaijani Military Targets Armenian Civilians

May 10, 2022 — 05/10/2022 Nagorno-Karabakh (International Christian Concern) – A little more than two weeks since the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (April 24), several incidents of harassment and intimidation by Azerbaijani troops against the...

Nigerian Senate Threatens Parents of Kidnapped Children

May 7, 2022 — 05/07/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Last month, the Nigerian Senate passed a bill criminalizing the families of kidnapped persons and threatening them with a minimum of fifteen years in...

Persian-Speaking Christian Converts Protest Right to Work

May 7, 2022 — 05/07/2022 Iran (International Christian Concern) – Twenty-five Iranian Christian converts signed a joint statement regarding the deprivation of their right to work, according to Article 18. Signatories included several Christians previously...

ICC Supports a Persecuted Montagnard Evangelist and His Family

May 6, 2022 — 05/05/2022 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Montagnard Christians living in the Central Highlands of Vietnam have been systematically persecuted by their government. Those who identify as Protestant or evangelical often...

U.S. Government Commission Again Criticizes State Department Decision to Take Nigeria Off CPC List

May 5, 2022 — 05/05/2022 United States (International Christian Concern) – As it has every year since 2009, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) earlier this month recommended that the U.S. Department...

Turkey Launches Latest Offensive Against PKK in Iraq

May 5, 2022 — 05/05/2022 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – As a result of the Turkish offensive and conflict with the PKK, at least eight predominantly Christian villages in the Amedi region of Duhok province...

Malaysian Writer Arrested for Allegedly Insulting Mohammad

May 5, 2022 — 05/05/2022 Malaysia (International Christian Concern) – A Malaysian writer named Uthaya Sankar was arrested on April 11 after being accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammad in a Facebook post. He...

Ten “Unofficial” Chinese Priests Disappear in Hebei Province

May 4, 2022 — The Chinese government detains underground Catholic priests. 05/04/2022 China (International Christian Concern) –Local authorities have detained at least ten priests from the underground Catholic community of Baoding in Hebei...

Nigerian Militants Displace, Kill Christian Villagers and Soldier in Brazen Attack

May 3, 2022 — Nigerian Militants Displace, Kill Christian Villagers and Soldier in Brazen Attack 05/03/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern – Fulani militants with sophisticated weapons attacked a Christian community and killed four Christians,...

ISWAP Claims Bombing that Targeted Christians

May 2, 2022 — 05/02/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) armed group has claimed responsibility for an explosion that killed or injured 30 people at a...

Malaysian Lawmaker Sentenced for Criticizing Shariah Court System

May 2, 2022 — 05/02/2022 Malaysia (International Christian Concern) – On April 25, Malaysian lawmaker Maria Chin Abdullah was sentenced to seven days in jail for allegedly insulting the Shariah judicial system. Shariah judge...

ICC Provides Livestock Business for Believer in Egypt

May 2, 2022 — 05/02/2022 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – In Egypt, Omar worked as a treasurer in a public school to support his family. Last year, the headmaster of the school reported...

Christians Farmers in Nigeria’s Kaduna State Attacked Again This Week

April 29, 2022 — 04/28/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – “Twenty-one Christian farmers were killed by Fulani militants in four different villages of Kauru local government in Kaduna State,” locals told ICC. The attackers...

Nine Coptic Christians Released After Nearly 3 Months in Prison

April 28, 2022 — 04/28/2022 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – Egyptian authorities released the nine Coptic Christians who were imprisoned earlier this year for protesting their church's delayed authorization for rebuilding. The nine were reportedly...

Nigerian Leaders Speak at Christian Burial

April 27, 2022 — 04/27/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – The National President of Irigwe Development Association (IDA), Prince Robert Ashi Dodo, has likened the situation confronting the Rigwe Nation to that of the...

Extremists Attack Military Camps in Mali and Burkina Faso

April 27, 2022 — 04/27/2022 Mali (International Christian Concern) – Attacks by suspected militants in the neighboring West African nations of Mali and Burkina Faso left at least 20 soldiers and 6 civilians dead....