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...

Christian Woman Sentenced to Death in Pakistan for Blasphemy

September 20, 2024 — 9/20/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — A Pakistani court on Wednesday sentenced a 40-year-old Christian mother to death for allegedly blaspheming the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Judge Muhammad Afzal Majoka sentenced...

EU Envoy Calls for Religious Tolerance during Pakistan Visit

September 16, 2024 — 9/16/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — The European Union’s special envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) stressed the importance of religious tolerance during a recent...

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...

False Blasphemy Charge Leaves Christian Community Reeling

September 5, 2024 — 9/5/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — Yet another Christian community in Pakistan is in a state of fear following a local Muslim’s false accusation of blasphemy. On Aug. 27, a...

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...

Man Jailed for Life in Blasphemy Case in Karachi

August 31, 2024 — 8/31/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — On Thursday, a sessions court in Karachi sentenced Ali Hyder to life imprisonment for desecrating the Holy Quran in 2021. Additional District and Sessions...

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...

Crowns of Courage: The Harrowing Tale of Nazir Masih

August 29, 2024 — 08/29/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – In Pakistan and many other persecuted nations, blasphemy laws have served effectively as a death sentence for Christian minorities. In addition to the obvious legal...

Taliban Codifies Sweeping Updates to its Morality Law

August 27, 2024 — 8/27/2024 Afghanistan (International Christian Concern) — Fresh on the heels of a decision last week to block the U.N. human rights rapporteur from entering Afghanistan, the Taliban regime ruling the...

18-Year-Old Arrested Following False Blasphemy Accusations

August 27, 2024 — 8/27/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — Police in Pakistan have arrested an 18-year-old Christian named Tabi after villagers falsely accused him of blaspheming Islam. Locals in Kalaywala Kasur allegedly saw...

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...