Hundreds of Kachin and Shan displaced amid fresh clashesJanuary 5, 2018 — ICC Note: Renewed fighting in conflict-torn Kachin and Shan states have displaced more than 1000 Christian-majority Kachin and Shan people. Myanmar’s military have launched assaults on several positions across Kachin...
Christian Communities Celebrate Christmas in Yangon after 50 yearsJanuary 2, 2018 — ICC Note: For the first time in 50 years, the Christian communities in Myanmar, Catholic and Protestant, are able to publicly celebrate Christmas in the streets of Yangon. In the...
Myanmar’s other ethnic atrocity not to be ignoredDecember 28, 2017 — ICC Note: While the international community has joined forces in condemning the atrocities committed against Rohingya ethnic group in Myanmar by the military, the largely Christian ethnic group Kachin has...
Iowans give this Burmese Christian widow a warm Christmas giftDecember 27, 2017 — ICC Note: Christian refugees Stephen and Ester Kiim fled Myanmar from religious persecution in 2011 to move to Des Moines, Iowa. Last April, Stephen was shot and killed in an...
Burmese Christian family shares how they forgave Buddhist radicals who attacked themDecember 15, 2017 — ICC Note: A missionary retells the story of how a Burmese Christian family survived radical Buddhists’ attack and forgave them. The act itself then brought four radicals to Christ. Buddhist...
Thousands in Kachin State suffering under blockadeDecember 12, 2017 — ICC Note: Conflict between Kachin militants and the national government has resulted in a military blockade in Tanai Town of Myanmar’s northern Kachin State, where 90% of them are Christians....
Laiza in the spotlight: Myanmar’s rebel capital for Christian Kachin peopleDecember 9, 2017 — ICC Note: Kachin state continues to fear attacks from the Burmese army as they push forward with the goal of establishing an autonomous homeland for the Kachin people, a tiny...
The difficult life of a Catholic missionary in MyanmarDecember 1, 2017 — ICC Note: A Spanish Catholic missionary shares the challenges he faces in the Buddhist-majority country Myanmar- difficulties to evangelize, no equal treatment in day-to-day life, not registered as a religious...
The Rohingyas not the only group hoping for an intervention from Pope FrancisDecember 1, 2017 — ICC Note: While the issue of Rohingyas took the center stage of Pope Francis’ recent visit to Myanmar, sadly they are not the only religious group in Myanmar heavily persecuted...
Myanmar army chief tells Pope ‘no religious discrimination’November 28, 2017 — ICC Note: Despite overwhelming evidence for the persecution of the religious minorities in Myanmar, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, whom many hold responsible for Rohingya crisis, has told Pope Francis...
ICC Provides Medicine to Persecuted Christians in IDP CampNovember 16, 2017 — By Linda Jones 11/16/2017 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) - The civil war in Burma has affected at least three million people over the last 60 years. The conflict has...
Anti-pope provocations elicit Buddhist solidarity towards Catholics in MyanmarNovember 6, 2017 — ICC Note: Extremist groups try to antagonize the Christian minority before the Pope’s historic journey to the Asian nation. Pope’s appeal to end violent persecution of Rohingya religious minority has...
Persecuted Christians in Burma are HopefulOctober 21, 2017 — ICC Note: Christians in Burma have been under attack for many years. Their churches and other places of worship have been destroyed, forcing them to relocate and leaving everything they...
Ed.D. Student Seeks To Advance Refugee Education With Support from Prestigious GrantOctober 14, 2017 — ICC Note: Student in Bethel’s Ed.D. Hsajune Dyan, who came to Minnesota as a seventeen year old refugee, seeks to advance education for Karen people and other minorities. Mr. Dyan...
Religious freedom is another casualty of Southeast Asia’s regressive turnOctober 11, 2017 — ICC Note: Rising religious intolerance, persecution, and intercommunal conflicts have been growing in the Southeast Asia. Religious violations against the Rohingya Muslims and other religious minorities in Myanmar have pretty...
Global terror groups set to exploit violence in Myanmar’s RakhineOctober 4, 2017 — ICC Note: Regional and international terrorist groups are eager to utilize the Rohingya crisis as an entry point for waging jihad in Myanmar, according to analysts familiar with the situation....
