Christians Stand Firm Despite Extremist Threats in IndonesiaAugust 15, 2016 — ICC NOTE: A group of Indonesian Christians have been standing firm despite threats from extremist elements of the majority Islamic nation. Threats with machetes and photos for future identification led...
Chinese Christian Leader of Umbrella Movement Dodges Five Year SentenceAugust 15, 2016 — ICC NOTE: Christian leader of the democratic movement in Hong Kong known as the "Umbrella" movement was spared a likely sentence of five years. Rather than receiving the maximum for...
China Blasted for Treatment of House Church Leaders and Human Rights ActivistsAugust 12, 2016 — ICC Note: It's positive news that leaders are speaking out against China's ridiculous sequence of skewed "trials" of political prisoners. Bob Fu of China Aid continues to be a leading...
Chinese Province Continues to Seek and Dismantle Christian Houses of Worship in Preparation for International SummitAugust 11, 2016 — ICC Note: China continues its crackdown upon house churches, this time chasing one that has accumulated a couple thousand members by being active since the days of Mao Zedong -...
State Department Report Chastises Lack of Religious Freedom throughout East AsiaAugust 11, 2016 — ICC Note: The State Department has released a new report on the state of religious freedom worldwide, and the results for much of East Asia are not pleasant. An interesting...
Chinese Refugees Apply for Asylum in Netherlands, their Plight is Christian PersecutionAugust 10, 2016 — ICC Note: As this group of 60 Chinese seeking asylum in Netherlands has shown, Christian refugees come not only from nations torn by civil war or from nations without great...
China Denies Christians Welfare PaymentsAugust 10, 2016 — ICC Note: We have seen yet another tactic from within the CCP's persecution arsenal - revoking welfare from Chinese Christians without giving any cause whatsoever other than that they are...
House-Church Leader among Four Pro-Democracy Activists Sentenced in ChinaAugust 9, 2016 — ICC Note:Hu Shigen, 61, is a house-church leader in China. He was sentenced by the No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court to seven and a half years in prison under charges...
Even After Bail, There is no Relief for Persecuted Chinese Human Rights LawyersAugust 9, 2016 — ICC Note: Unfortunately, it seems that there is no end to the unjust saga that Chinese human rights lawyers must contend with each day because of the malevolence of their...
Traditional Religious Adherents, Freedom of Religion Under Siege in IndonesiaAugust 9, 2016 — ICC News: The presence of intolerant Islamists and jihadists in some areas of Indonesia is not the only obstacle that the Christian church there faces - religious liberty in general...
Lausanne Movement for Worldwide Evangelism Holds Convention in IndonesiaAugust 8, 2016 — ICC Note: It often surprises people to hear that Indonesia contains the world's largest population of Muslims. But what is perhaps even lesser known is the fact that the Christian...
Wife Writes Beautiful Letter to Imprisoned Christian Husband in ChinaAugust 8, 2016 — ICC Note: When one person is the victim of religious persecution, rarely is it he or she who is the only one to suffer. That person's spouse, children, and relatives...
Three Religions Caught in Front of the Government Bulldozer in BurmaAugust 5, 2016 — ICC NOTE: Burma has been a hotbed for animosity among the three main religions, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. Buddhist radicals have been constructing religious shrines on or near Muslim and...
Punishment Handed Down on Christian Activist in Tianjin TrialsAugust 5, 2016 — ICC Note: The final trial of the CCP's infamous "crackdown week" on human rights advocates has been concluded, and the victim on this occasion was a Christian man. Merely because...
Closed Trials in China are Anything but JusticeAugust 4, 2016 — ICC Note: The trials of prominent human rights defenders in China this week have continued to be an absolute farce. No such thing as a "fair trial" has been granted...
Christianity on the Rise in MyanmarAugust 4, 2016 — ICC Note: We often see and read about the persecution of Christians caused by Islamic theocracy and nationalism; however, minorities suffer at the hands of different religious majorities elsewhere as...
