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Plateau Governor Imposes Curfew After Pastor, 27 Others Killed in Week
October 4, 2026 Nigeria — David Nanpet, an eyewitness documenter with the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON), was monitoring reports of renewed attacks across Plateau state when he received news that a pastor had been...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part III: Syria — War, Displacement, and a Vanishing Christian Community
October 2, 2026 Syria — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On Sunday, June 22, 2025, Christians gathered for worship inside Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus. Families sat together, prayers were spoken, and...
Chinese Pastor Detained for ‘Organizing Illegal Religious Activities’
October 2, 2026 China — An Yankui was at his home when officials arrested him at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 29 for an investigation on suspicion of “organizing illegal religious activities,” according to a police...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East Part II: Iraq — From Ancient Christian Homeland to Exodus
October 2, 2026 Iraq — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On an ordinary August evening in 2014, Mariam was preparing dinner while her husband, Nabil, closed the small repair shop his family had owned...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part I: Can Christianity Disappear from the Land Where It Was Born?
September 30, 2026 — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On a Sunday morning somewhere in the Middle East, an old church bell still rings. It may sound across a neighborhood in northern Iraq, an...
Nigeria Advances Police Reform as First Constitutional Amendment to Reach States
September 29, 2026 Nigeria — Nigeria has taken an important step toward decentralizing its policing system after the National Assembly transmitted a constitutional amendment establishing state police services to all 36 state Houses of Assembly...
New Legislation Threatens Independent Documentation of Persecution in Nigeria
September 28, 2026 Nigeria — Nigeria’s Senate is advancing legislation that could significantly expand government oversight of organizations receiving foreign funding, raising concerns that the measure could affect the ability of churches, humanitarian organizations, human...
Africa News
See All Africa NewsPlateau Governor Imposes Curfew After Pastor, 27 Others Killed in Week
October 4, 2026 ICC News — David Nanpet, an eyewitness documenter with the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON), was monitoring reports of renewed attacks across Plateau state when he received news that a pastor had been...
Nigeria Advances Police Reform as First Constitutional Amendment to Reach States
September 29, 2026 ICC News — Nigeria has taken an important step toward decentralizing its policing system after the National Assembly transmitted a constitutional amendment establishing state police services to all 36 state Houses of Assembly...
New Legislation Threatens Independent Documentation of Persecution in Nigeria
September 28, 2026 ICC News — Nigeria’s Senate is advancing legislation that could significantly expand government oversight of organizations receiving foreign funding, raising concerns that the measure could affect the ability of churches, humanitarian organizations, human...
Nigerian Pastor, Believer Killed on Their Way to Church
September 25, 2026 ICC News — A pastor and another believer on their way to worship God were among the 13 killed during the weekend in Plateau state, Nigeria. The pastor, his son, and a church worker...
Middle East News
See All Middle East NewsThe Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part III: Syria — War, Displacement, and a Vanishing Christian Community
October 2, 2026 ICC Fellows, ICC News — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On Sunday, June 22, 2025, Christians gathered for worship inside Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus. Families sat together, prayers were spoken, and...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East Part II: Iraq — From Ancient Christian Homeland to Exodus
October 2, 2026 ICC News — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On an ordinary August evening in 2014, Mariam was preparing dinner while her husband, Nabil, closed the small repair shop his family had owned...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part I: Can Christianity Disappear from the Land Where It Was Born?
September 30, 2026 ICC Fellows, ICC News — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On a Sunday morning somewhere in the Middle East, an old church bell still rings. It may sound across a neighborhood in northern Iraq, an...
Lebanese Christians Stuck Between Mortal Enemies
September 14, 2026 ICC News — Lebanon has the highest proportion of Christians anywhere in the Arab World and arguably the region’s least restrictive laws on religious freedom. Lebanese Christians also have important positions in society....
South Asia News
See All South Asia NewsChurches Restrict Entry of Non-Christians in Persecution-Hit Region
September 28, 2026 ICC News — In an unprecedented development last week, more than 40 churches in the Dhamtari district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, India, declared that worship is restricted to Christians only,...
Conditions Worsen for Stateless Rohingya Christians
September 28, 2026 ICC News — The Rohingya are known largely as a Muslim ethnic group forcibly driven from Myanmar. But a small subset of Rohingya are Christian. Numbering about 1,500 in total, these Christians comprise...
Seven Letters from the Persecuted Church
September 25, 2026 ICC News — By International Christian Concern’s field leader for South Asia Recently, I traveled through Nepal, India, and Bhutan as part of our ministry to the persecuted church, meeting believers and listening...
Christian Educational Institutions in India Face Mounting Pressure
September 22, 2026 ICC News — Elite Christian educational institutions in the Indian state of West Bengal are the latest targets of religious extremism in what seems to be a systematic dismantling of intellectual strongholds. While...
Southeast Asia news
See All Southeast Asia NewsChinese Pastor Detained for ‘Organizing Illegal Religious Activities’
October 2, 2026 ICC News — An Yankui was at his home when officials arrested him at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 29 for an investigation on suspicion of “organizing illegal religious activities,” according to a police...
Conditions Worsen for Stateless Rohingya Christians
September 28, 2026 ICC News — The Rohingya are known largely as a Muslim ethnic group forcibly driven from Myanmar. But a small subset of Rohingya are Christian. Numbering about 1,500 in total, these Christians comprise...
Senators Lankford, King Honor Victims on CCP’s 105th Anniversary
September 25, 2026 ICC News — On Wednesday, the same day Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Washington to be feted by the United States, U.S. Senators James Lankford and Angus King introduced a bipartisan resolution...
Trump-Xi Meeting Comes Amid Ongoing Persecution in China
September 22, 2026 ICC News — U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet in Washington on Sept. 24, with trade, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, Taiwan, and other issues expected to...
Religious freedom in the west
See All The West NewsSenators Lankford, King Honor Victims on CCP’s 105th Anniversary
September 25, 2026 ICC News — On Wednesday, the same day Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Washington to be feted by the United States, U.S. Senators James Lankford and Angus King introduced a bipartisan resolution...
Trump-Xi Meeting Comes Amid Ongoing Persecution in China
September 22, 2026 ICC News — U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet in Washington on Sept. 24, with trade, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, Taiwan, and other issues expected to...
U.S. Refugee Policies Leave Persecuted Christians with Fewer Paths to Safety
September 18, 2026 ICC News, Press Release — Christians facing persecution around the world are finding fewer pathways to safety in the United States as the country’s refugee resettlement program remains effectively suspended, and new asylum procedures change...
RSS Celebrates in New York Amid Continuing Persecution in India
September 4, 2026 ICC News — The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s leading Hindu nationalist organization and ideological parent of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has taken its campaign to reshape its international image to...
ICC Fellows
See All ICC Fellows NewsThe Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part III: Syria — War, Displacement, and a Vanishing Christian Community
October 2, 2026 ICC Fellows, ICC News — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On Sunday, June 22, 2025, Christians gathered for worship inside Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus. Families sat together, prayers were spoken, and...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part I: Can Christianity Disappear from the Land Where It Was Born?
September 30, 2026 ICC Fellows, ICC News — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette On a Sunday morning somewhere in the Middle East, an old church bell still rings. It may sound across a neighborhood in northern Iraq, an...
Perspective on Middle East Policy, Politics, and Persecution
April 1, 2026 ICC Fellows, ICC News — By ICC Fellow Dr. Greg Cochran What makes a home? Beyond the quality of neighborhoods and locations near good schools, houses currently for sale must compete for the attention of skilled buyers who are well-suited to scrutinize — buyers making...
Economic Persecution (Part 1 of 5)
March 9, 2026 ICC Fellows, ICC News — By Lisa Navarrette, ICC Fellow When persecution is discussed, it is usually framed in images of violence: burned churches, imprisoned pastors, mobs chanting in the streets. These images are real, and...
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