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Old Ideas Still Have Power
October 7, 2026 — By ICC Fellow Greg Cochran, PhD Baptists at the Everett Center for Global Religious Freedom (Dallas Baptist University) published a report this summer measuring the global temperature on religious liberty. ...
Hunted for Following Jesus
October 7, 2026 Uganda — For Christians who leave Islam to follow Jesus Christ, conversion can come with a high cost. In some communities, those who turn to Christ face rejection, threats, violence, and...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part VI: When Christianity Becomes History
October 7, 2026 Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Palestinian Areas, Syria, West Bank and Gaza — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette Throughout this series, The Disappearing Christian Middle East, we have traveled through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza. Circumstances differ in...
Christians Reel Under Effects of Floods, Persecution in Chhattisgarh
October 6, 2026 India — Christians in Chhattisgarh, India, facing relentless pressure from Hindu nationalists, must now deal with the aftermath of recent floods. The flooding unfolded between Sept. 24 and 27 along the volatile...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part V: The Holy Land — When Christians Leave the Birthplace of Christianity
October 6, 2026 Israel, Palestine, Palestinian Areas, West Bank and Gaza — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette Every December, Elias watches pilgrims pour into Bethlehem. From the doorway of his family’s small olivewood shop, he hears church bells ringing above the old...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part IV: Lebanon — The Last Christian Stronghold of the Arab Middle East?
October 5, 2026 Lebanon — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette For generations, Lebanon was different. In much of the Middle East, Christians lived as minorities navigating political systems dominated by larger religious communities. In Lebanon,...
Punjab Panel Approves Bill to Reform Christian Marriage Law
October 5, 2026 Pakistan — A legislative committee in Pakistan’s Punjab province has unanimously approved a bill that would set the minimum age for Christian marriages at 18 for both partners, require official registration, and...
Africa News
See All Africa NewsHunted for Following Jesus
October 7, 2026 ICC News — For Christians who leave Islam to follow Jesus Christ, conversion can come with a high cost. In some communities, those who turn to Christ face rejection, threats, violence, and...
Plateau 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...
Middle East News
See All Middle East NewsThe Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part VI: When Christianity Becomes History
October 7, 2026 ICC News — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette Throughout this series, The Disappearing Christian Middle East, we have traveled through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza. Circumstances differ in...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part V: The Holy Land — When Christians Leave the Birthplace of Christianity
October 6, 2026 ICC News — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette Every December, Elias watches pilgrims pour into Bethlehem. From the doorway of his family’s small olivewood shop, he hears church bells ringing above the old...
The Disappearing Christian Middle East, Part IV: Lebanon — The Last Christian Stronghold of the Arab Middle East?
October 5, 2026 ICC News — By ICC Fellow Lisa Navarrette For generations, Lebanon was different. In much of the Middle East, Christians lived as minorities navigating political systems dominated by larger religious communities. In Lebanon,...
The 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...
South Asia News
See All South Asia NewsChristians Reel Under Effects of Floods, Persecution in Chhattisgarh
October 6, 2026 ICC News — Christians in Chhattisgarh, India, facing relentless pressure from Hindu nationalists, must now deal with the aftermath of recent floods. The flooding unfolded between Sept. 24 and 27 along the volatile...
Punjab Panel Approves Bill to Reform Christian Marriage Law
October 5, 2026 ICC News — A legislative committee in Pakistan’s Punjab province has unanimously approved a bill that would set the minimum age for Christian marriages at 18 for both partners, require official registration, and...
Churches 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...
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 NewsOld Ideas Still Have Power
October 7, 2026 ICC News — By ICC Fellow Greg Cochran, PhD Baptists at the Everett Center for Global Religious Freedom (Dallas Baptist University) published a report this summer measuring the global temperature on religious liberty. ...
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...
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...
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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