High Court Calls for Regulation of Christian Institutions in India

October 28, 2024 — 10/28/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — The High Court of Tamil Nadu made a significant statement on Oct. 23, saying there is a need for Christian institutions to be regulated...

Report Shows Christian Persecution Worsening Worldwide

October 24, 2024 — 10/24/2024 United Kingdom (International Christian Concern) — A report released on Tuesday shows that Christians around the world are enduring increased levels of violence, discrimination, and other human rights abuses....

Hindu Organizations Attempt to Stop Two Large Christian Gatherings

October 21, 2024 — 10/21/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Two Hindu nationalist organizations are trying to stop two large public Christian conventions scheduled to take place in different provinces of the Central Indian...

80-Mile-Long Human Chain Forms to Protest Politician’s Anti-Christian Remarks

October 14, 2024 — 10/14/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Christians in Chhattisgarh formed an 80-mile-long human chain to protest inaction against a member of the legislative assembly who made derogatory remarks about Jesus...

U.S. Government Commission Finds Worsening Persecution in India Amid Elections

October 9, 2024 — 10/9/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — A special mid-year report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released last week found that persecution in India has continued to...

11 Female Evangelists Arrested on False Charges of Forced Conversions

October 7, 2024 — 10/7/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Eleven Christian women evangelists from Hyderabad, along with seven other local Christian men and women, were arrested and arraigned on false charges of trying...

Pastor Found Guilty of Forced Conversions in India

September 30, 2024 — 9/30/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Despite being granted bail, a pastor working for a missionary organization in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was convicted on Wednesday on...

Finding a Way Out of Pain and Poverty

September 27, 2024 — 9/27/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — After silently suffering through years of abuse for her decision to leave Hinduism to follow Jesus, Navya found a second reason to leave her...

Supriya’s Hope for a Better Future

September 26, 2024 — 9/26/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Supriya’s Christian parents never imagined their daughter’s life beyond their poor economic circumstances in India. They always believed that poverty was their fate and,...

Indian Supreme Court Hears Case Related to Mass Religious Conversions

September 22, 2024 — 9/21/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — A fierce and prolonged legal battle is going on in the Supreme Court of India (SCI) in a case related to the “protection from arrest”...

India: Where the Church is Attacked from Every Angle

September 22, 2024 — 10/17/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Christians in India are increasingly finding that the world’s largest democracy — and recently the world’s largest country overall — is no friend to...

Training Pastors to Respond Well to Persecution

September 16, 2024 — 09/16/2024 India (International Christian Concern) – As anti-Christian sentiment increases among Hindu communities throughout India, pastors and other church leaders are enduring more persecution. International Christian Concern (ICC) has heard more...

Hindu Nationalists Attack Church in Odisha

September 9, 2024 — 9/9/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — A pastor and several members of his church were beaten on Sunday as Hindu nationalists attacked a worship service in Odisha on Sunday, accusing...

NGOs Struggle Against Foreign Funding Laws, ICC Report Reveals

September 4, 2024 — 9/4/2024 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) — International Christian Concern released its latest report focusing on the challenges faced by non-governmental and Christian organizations due to financial laws and regulations in...

Family of Deceased Pastor Coerced to Re-Convert for Burial

August 30, 2024 — 8/30/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — When a Christian pastor died suddenly of a heart attack in a village in the Bastar district of India’s Chhattisgarh state, his family was...

Technology Can Help Persecuted Christians

August 27, 2024 — By Lisa Navarrette, ICC Fellow Technology, just like money, is a tool that can be used for good or evil. We know that technology has increased persecution.(1) It also has profoundly...