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...

After Centuries of Genocide and Persecution, Christianity Continues to Grow

October 11, 2024 — 10/11/2024 (International Christian Concern) — Since the death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, in 33-36 A.D., Christians have endured unrelenting persecution and, at times, even genocide. Despite this, the...

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...

Rescued from the Rubble

October 9, 2024 — 10/9/2024 Nepal (International Christian Concern) — After an earthquake struck Nepal in November 2023, Sabita struggled to provide for her two young children. The earthquake — which killed more than...

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...

Muslim Doctor Denies Elderly Christian Medical Care

October 4, 2024 — 10/4/2024 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) — When Yousaf Masih Gill first met with the doctor assigned to care for his gravely ill father at Civil Hospital of Sahiwal in Punjab,...

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...

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...