Pandemic Brings Opportunity for Faith Groups to Grow Closer in India

May 26, 2021 — 05/26/2021 India (International Christian Concern) – While India and the greater parts of South Asia are in the throes of COVID-19, some bright spots in the deeply religiously-divided country have...

Story of Edeline: How She Became a Church Bombing Victim

May 26, 2021 —

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By ICC’s Indonesia Correspondent 05/26/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – This is the story of Edeline, a survivor of the suicide bombing at...

ICC Positively Impacts Christian Family Effected by India’s COVID-19 Crisis

May 26, 2021 — 05/26/2021 India (International Christian Concern) – India continues to face the devastating second surge of COVID-19, which has killed over 300,000 people in the country and infected more than 27...

Bishop and 10 Priests Arrested and Subjected to “Political Sessions” in Xinxiang

May 25, 2021 — 05/25/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – In two days, almost the entirety of the clergy working at the apostolic prefecture of Xinxiang were taken out by a large police operation....

Christian Man in Pakistan Murdered for Reporting a Crime

May 25, 2021 — 05/25/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – According to the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), a Christian man in Pakistan was kidnapped and murdered after reporting a crime to local...

ICC Assists Indonesian Community Stunned by Terrorist Attack

May 24, 2021 —

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By ICC’s Indonesia Correspondent 05/24/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – In mid-March, ICC visited Lembantongoa Village in the Sigi Regency in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia for the...

Prime Minister Imran Khan Seeks to Islamize Pakistan’s Curriculum

May 24, 2021 — 05/24/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Prime Minister Imran Khan and his team are preparing to implement a new national curriculum in Pakistan that will Islamize the education system through...

Four Killed in a Military Attack on a Myanmar Church

May 24, 2021 — 05/24/2021 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – Four people were killed on May 24 when the Burmese military attacked a Catholic church in eastern Myanmar. This event is another in a...

Answered Prayers in India

May 24, 2021 —

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05/24/2021 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – In February 2019, Podiya Madakami, a woman from India’s Odisha state, became a Christian and developed a fierce...

Christian Couple Convicted of Blasphemy “Left to Die” on Death Row in Pakistan

May 24, 2021 — 05/24/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – According to the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), the health of Shafqat Emmanuel, a Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for committing blasphemy, is...

Prayers Needed for Restive Myanmar as Armed Conflicts Intensify

May 23, 2021 — 05/23/2021 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – As the military junta in Myanmar continues to destabilize the country by cracking down pro-democracy protesters, attacking villages in Christian-majority states, and disabling the...

New Census Data Shows Pakistan’s Christian Population in Decline

May 23, 2021 — 05/23/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – According to the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN), the Christian population of Pakistan has declined over the past two decades. Church leaders point...

Poso Residents Urge Indonesian Presidents to Rid Terrorist Group

May 22, 2021 — 05/22/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – A group of villagers from the restive Poso region in Central Sulawesi is calling for Indonesian president to step up his administration’s efforts in...

Pastor and Family in India Struggle to Survive Country’s COVID-19 Surge

May 21, 2021 — 05/21/2021 India (International Christian Concern) – Vikram Singh, age 31, is a pastor from the Ratlam district of India’s Madhya Pradesh state. After spending two weeks in the hospital with a...

Indonesian Police Arrest 53 Suspects in Cathedral Bombing

May 21, 2021 — 05/21/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – On March 28, a suicide bombing occurred outside a Catholic cathedral in Makassar, Sulawesi, while the church was having the Palm Sunday Mass. At...

Yasmin Church Denied Access to Their Property Despite Supreme Court Ruling

May 20, 2021 — 05/20/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – On May 7, GKI (The Indonesian Christian Church) Executive Representative Bona Sigalingging urged the mayor of Bogor, Bima Arya, to allow Yasmin Church to...