2 House Church Pastors Shot in Vietnam’s Central Highlands

December 16, 2024 — 12/16/2024 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) — Reports have surfaced of two independent house pastors being shot in different parts of Vietnam’s Central Highlands in recent months. Pastor Y Hung Ayun,...

NBA Announces Return to China Despite Ongoing Persecution

December 6, 2024 — 12/6/2024 United States (International Christian Concern) — In an announcement on social media Friday, the Nation Basketball Association (NBA) revealed that it will return to China for two preseason games leading...

7 New Synods Latest Sign of Church Growth in Indonesia

December 6, 2024 — 12/5/2024 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — The church is growing rapidly in the world’s largest Muslim country. The latest evidence of this was made known during the General Assembly...

U.S. House Passes Bill Updating Law Promoting Human Rights in North Korea

November 26, 2024 — 11/26/2024 United States (International Christian Concern) — The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill on Nov. 20 to update and reauthorize the 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act....

Millions at Risk of Starvation Amid Government Crackdown in Myanmar

November 25, 2024 — 11/25/2024 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) — According to U.N. research, roughly 2 million people in Myanmar are at risk of starvation in the coming months. A raging conflict between the...

North Korea: Where Christians are the Enemy of the State

November 22, 2024 — 11/22/2024 North Korea (International Christian Concern) — Though it maintains a small token church as a nod to its previously religious past, the North Korean government is no friend to religion....

Malaysian Politician Calls for Reintroduction of Bible Studies in Schools

November 22, 2024 — 11/22/2024 Malaysia (International Christian Concern) — John Ilus, the Bukit Semuja member of Parliament for the Legislative Assembly of the Malaysian State of Sarawak, Borneo, recently advocated for the Bible...

Report Recognizes 10 Persecuted Catholic Bishops in China

November 22, 2024 — 11/21/2024 China (International Christian Concern) — A 2024 report from the Hudson Institute highlights the ongoing persecution of 10 Catholic bishops in China. The report, released in October and written...

Indonesia Arrests 181 Terrorists in Last Year

November 22, 2024 — Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — In the past year, Indonesian authorities have arrested 181 suspected terrorists, National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo said during the 79th Anniversary of the Brimob...

Indonesians Increasingly Reject Establishment of New Churches

November 12, 2024 — 11/12/2024 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — After several residents of a village in Cirebon, West Java, rejected the establishment of a new church, an Indonesian organization is calling such rejections...

Indonesian Authorities Arrest 3 Suspected JAD Terrorists

November 8, 2024 — 11/8/2024 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — Indonesia’s Special Detachment (Densus 88) Anti-Terrorism Unit arrested three suspected terrorists from the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) group on Monday in Central Java. JAD,...

Villagers in Indonesia Reject Proposed Church

November 6, 2024 — 11/6/2024 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) — Several residents in Pegambiran, a village in the city of Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia, recently rejected a proposal to establish a church in a...

Malaysian Court of Appeal Nullifies Three Unilateral Conversions to Islam

November 6, 2024 — 11/6/2024 Malaysia (International Christian Concern) — The government of the Malaysian state of Perlis has initiated legal proceedings to overturn a Federal Court decision that prevented the unilateral conversion of...

New Round of Sanctions Targets Myanmar’s Military Junta

November 5, 2024 — 11/5/2024 United Kingdom (International Christian Concern) — Government officials in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Canada announced a set of coordinated sanctions against Myanmar’s military last week. This...

Christian Arrested in Indonesia for Doubting Islam on Social Media

November 1, 2024 — Update: Since posting the article below, ICC has received further details regarding the incident it describes. We have determined that it was not a case of Christian persecution. The man...

Elderly Christians in Southeast Asia Receive Large Print Bibles

November 1, 2024 — 11/1/2024 Southeast Asia (International Christian Concern) — Christians of all ages need access to God’s Word. With this in mind, International Christian Concern (ICC) staff provided large-print Bibles to elderly...