Rajasthan Considers Anti-Conversion Law

June 24, 2024 — 6/24/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — The North Indian state of Rajasthan is considering an anti-conversion law to prevent fraudulent and forceful religious conversions. If implemented, Rajasthan could become the 11th...

Wife of Pakistani Christian Recently Killed by Muslim Mob Dies

June 21, 2024 — 6/21/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — Naseem Nazir, wife of Nazir Masih, an elderly Christian who died after being brutally beaten by an angry Muslim mob, died on Friday after...

The Gift of New Life in Pakistan

June 20, 2024 — 06/20/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – When Christians are freed from the bondage of working in Pakistan’s brick kilns, they often don’t have the skills they need to support themselves —...

Members of Mob That Killed Nazir Masih Released on Bail

June 19, 2024 — 6/19/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — Two weeks after Nazir Masih succumbed to injuries he sustained during a brutal mob attack on May 25, an International Christian Concern (ICC) source...

11 Christians Detained under India’s Anti-Conversion Laws Released

June 18, 2024 — 6/18/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — A law firm in the state of Madhya Pradesh last week secured the release of 11 Christians who had been detained since 2022 under anti-conversion...

The Unseen Struggle that Haunts Generations in Pakistan

June 13, 2024 — 06/13/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – In the heart of Pakistan, where diversity is celebrated and cultural richness flows through the veins of its people, a sinister reality lies hidden, a...

ICC Perspectives: Christian Lynching Victim’s Death Reignites Blasphemy Law Protests

June 11, 2024 — 6/11/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — It is an unfortunate reality that many Christians in Pakistan live in fear that they could be the next target of Islamic extremism. This...

Indian Christians Told to Forsake Christ or Face Boycott, Banishment

June 5, 2024 — 6/5/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — About 15 Christian families in one tribal village have been denied basic human needs for three months due to a socio-economic boycott order issued...

ICC Perspectives: India’s 2024 Election Results

June 5, 2024 — 6/4/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, are set to form India’s next government following today’s counting of votes. Still,...

Pakistan Christian Dies Nine Days after Mob Attack

June 4, 2024 — 6/4/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — About a week after suffering a brutal mob attack, Nazir Masih, who was in his 70s, died early Monday morning at a military hospital...

Mob Brutally Attacks Elderly Christian Man after False Blasphemy Claims Circulate

May 25, 2024 — 5/25/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — Around 7 a.m., an angry mob attacked an elderly Christian man after claims that he had burned pages from a Quran circulated throughout the...

ISIS Foments Persecution with Zeal to Conquer Again

May 25, 2024 — By Garret Baird JD, ICC Fellow In January 2024, the Islamic State, or ISIS, spokesman Abu Hadhayfah Al-Ansari catalyzed the global terror campaign under the slogan “kill them where you...

Pakistani Ad Criticized as Discriminatory to Christians

May 25, 2024 — 5/24/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — An ad calling for a sweeper in northwest Pakistan is being denounced as discriminatory to Christians in the region. Pakistani sweepers work notoriously difficult,...

Christians Imprisoned under Indian Anti-Conversion Law Languish Behind Bars

May 24, 2024 — 5/24/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Nearly 70 Christians arrested under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance of 2020 are languishing in jails in the North Indian...

Family Mob Kills Young Christian Convert in India

May 24, 2024 — 5/24/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — A young Christian convert in Chhattisgarh, India, was killed by a mob led by his uncle and cousin on May 4. Kosa Kawasi, 22,...

ICC Perspectives: India’s 2024 General Elections

May 21, 2024 — 5/21/2024 India (International Christian Concern) — Christians in India are prayerfully awaiting the results of India’s 18th general elections to the country’s Lower House of Parliament, now in the fifth...