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Paul: The Marks of a True Apostle — When Suffering Becomes the Proof of Authentic Ministry

May 8, 2026 — By Pieter Vermeulen, ICC Board Member, as part of a series, “Persecuted but not Forsaken.” Few figures in the history of the church embodied the cost of following Jesus as clearly...

ICC Releases Report Exposing Nigeria’s $10 Million Genocide Cover-Up

May 8, 2026 Nigeria — A new report from International Christian Concern (ICC) highlights how Nigeria’s government is weaponizing misinformation to hide a decades-long campaign of violence against Christians. Written by ICC Fellow Justin Joseph,...

Demolition of Monastery Highlights Strain on Christians in the Middle East

May 8, 2026 Israel, Lebanon — According to reporting by Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) last week, the Israeli military demolished a Catholic monastery and a nuns’ school in a southern Lebanese border village. The destruction...

Russian Missionaries Arrested

May 8, 2026 Russia — On April 29, four Christians were fined by the peace court of the Kirovsky district of Kazan, Russia, for “illegal missionary work.” They were each fined 15,000 Russian rubles (about...

Families in Eastern Kenya Struggle with Mounting Grief

May 8, 2026 Kenya — While sitting at home in Eastern Kenya, Munyoki Muthui finds himself surrounded by a heavy silence. The elderly father, who has tirelessly cared for one of his sons who suffered...

ADF Attacks Several Villages in Eastern DRC

May 7, 2026 DRC — After a brief calm, Christians who had fled and resettled in Eastern DRC faced renewed ADF assaults. On May 5, ADF attacks occurred at Katerrain and Mangambo, villages situated along...

Community Grieves Teenage Christian’s Death

May 5, 2026 Kenya — The death of a Christian teenager has left a void in Mwingi, Kenya. During a recent evening in the Nguni area, Somali gunmen moving through grazing routes along local farmland...

ICC Releases Report Exposing Nigeria’s $10 Million Genocide Cover-Up

May 8, 2026 ICC News — A new report from International Christian Concern (ICC) highlights how Nigeria’s government is weaponizing misinformation to hide a decades-long campaign of violence against Christians. Written by ICC Fellow Justin Joseph,...

Families in Eastern Kenya Struggle with Mounting Grief

May 8, 2026 ICC News — While sitting at home in Eastern Kenya, Munyoki Muthui finds himself surrounded by a heavy silence. The elderly father, who has tirelessly cared for one of his sons who suffered...

ADF Attacks Several Villages in Eastern DRC

May 7, 2026 ICC News — After a brief calm, Christians who had fled and resettled in Eastern DRC faced renewed ADF assaults. On May 5, ADF attacks occurred at Katerrain and Mangambo, villages situated along...

Community Grieves Teenage Christian’s Death

May 5, 2026 ICC News — The death of a Christian teenager has left a void in Mwingi, Kenya. During a recent evening in the Nguni area, Somali gunmen moving through grazing routes along local farmland...

Demolition of Monastery Highlights Strain on Christians in the Middle East

May 8, 2026 ICC News — According to reporting by Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) last week, the Israeli military demolished a Catholic monastery and a nuns’ school in a southern Lebanese border village. The destruction...

Ruling Party in Armenia Releases Anti-Church Platform 

April 27, 2026 ICC News — Ahead of the June elections, Armenia’s ruling Civil Contract Party has published a political platform that calls for the removal of the Catholicos of All Armenians and outlines a politically led roadmap for restructuring the Armenian Apostolic...

Christian Sites Damaged, Destroyed in Southern Lebanon 

April 22, 2026 ICC News — Midway through a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians are returning to their homes and villages after being displaced by escalating violence between Hezbollah forces...

Upcoming Trial Threatens Egyptian Christian Convert

April 13, 2026 ICC News — An Egyptian Christian convert and internationally recognized prisoner of conscience, Said Abdelrazek, is facing an imminent court hearing that advocates warn could determine whether he lives or disappears into Egypt’s...

BJP Expands State Power as Concerns Grow for India’s Religious Minorities

May 5, 2026 ICC News — India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured a sweeping set of state-level victories, tightening its political grip across key regions and signaling a renewed phase of consolidation under Prime...

Three Years Later, Manipur Christians Still on Edge

May 4, 2026 — There’s no end in sight to the ethnic conflict that began three years ago between the Christian-majority Kuki-Zo and Hindu Meitei communities in Manipur, India. Even though mass riots have...

No Place Is Home: Life as an Afghan Christian

May 1, 2026 ICC News — This world has few certainties. But for Afghan Christians, one is clear: being known as a Christian in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan brings lethal danger. In this country of 44 million people,...

India Uncovers Foreign Network Funding Christian Ministry

April 29, 2026 ICC News — Last week, India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) found a foreign network using U.S.-based debit cards to fund religious activities in the country’s tribal areas. ED investigators claimed that nearly INR 950...

North Korea Prisoners to Receive Human Rights Award

May 5, 2026 ICC News — Three Korean missionaries detained for more than a decade in North Korea will receive the Graciela Fernandez Meijide Human Rights Award in August in absentia. The three men — Choi...

Local Pressure Prevents Church Construction in Indonesia

May 4, 2026 ICC News — The controversy surrounding the construction of the Toraja Church house of worship in the Sungai Keledang area of ​​Samarinda Seberang District, in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, remains unresolved. All administrative and...

Mass Amnesty Announcement in Myanmar Remains Mostly Unverified  

April 20, 2026 ICC News — Myanmar’s newly appointed president, Min Aung Hlaing, announced on Friday that he would release 4,335 prisoners to mark the first day of the Burmese New Year.   While the mass amnesty...

Former Indonesian VP Called Out for False Statement on Christianity

April 17, 2026 ICC News — The Central Executive Board of the Indonesian Christian Youth Movement (DPP GAMKI) and several other organizations reported former Indonesian Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla to the Jakarta Metropolitan Police on...

Russian Missionaries Arrested

May 8, 2026 ICC News — On April 29, four Christians were fined by the peace court of the Kirovsky district of Kazan, Russia, for “illegal missionary work.” They were each fined 15,000 Russian rubles (about...

North Korea Prisoners to Receive Human Rights Award

May 5, 2026 ICC News — Three Korean missionaries detained for more than a decade in North Korea will receive the Graciela Fernandez Meijide Human Rights Award in August in absentia. The three men — Choi...

British Police Arrest Preacher 

April 27, 2026 ICC News — On April 19, British police arrested an evangelical preacher for street evangelizing. Steve Maile was taken into custody while his wife, Karina, and their four children helplessly watched on.  Footage...

ICC President Shares Vision with Christian Leaders at RLP

April 27, 2026 ICC News, Press Release — International Christian Concern (ICC) President Shawn Wright recently shared his vision with more than 70 ministry leaders on ways to work together to serve the more than 388 million persecuted...

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...

Update on Syria: A New Era or More of the Same for Syrian Christians?

September 19, 2025 ICC Fellows — By Linda Burkle, Ph.D., ICC Fellow  Several years ago, while in Jordan, I had the privilege of participating in a feeding and grocery distribution program for Syrian refugees. We served...

Word Wrangling in the Sahel Region 

May 8, 2025 ICC Fellows — By Dr. Greg Cochran, ICC Fellow One of the greatest half-truths ever unleashed on humanity was the pithy encouragement parents commonly passed down to their children: “Sticks and stones may...

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