#RedWednesday Event to Commemorate Persecuted Christians WorldwideNovember 15, 2024 — 11/14/2024 Global (International Christian Concern) — Christian charity organization Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has organized an event on Nov. 20 to raise awareness of the plight 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...
Why Christians Should Care about Anti-Hijab Laws in North AmericaOctober 23, 2024 — 10/23/2024 The West (International Christian Concern) – The idea of religious clothing is foreign to most nondenominational Western Christians. And I’m not referring to a graphic T-shirt sporting a (debatable)...
Muslim Converts to Christianity Still Experience Persecution after Relocating to EuropeSeptember 13, 2024 — 9/20/2024 Europe (International Christian Concern) — It’s no secret that it is dangerous for one to convert from Islam to Christianity in majority-Muslim countries. If your neighbors learn about your...
Canadian Parliament Condemns Government Paper Calling Christmas and Easter Systemic DiscriminationFebruary 8, 2024 — 02/08/2024 Canada (International Christian Concern) – The Canadian House of Commons has unanimously condemned a government report that calls the Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter as examples of “systemic religious...
Teenager Arrested in Canada for Handing Out Bibles in ProtestJuly 5, 2023 — 07/05/2023 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Canadian police arrested a 16-year-old boy after he handed out Bibles on a public sidewalk. Josh Alexander, a former student of St. Joseph’s Catholic...
Canadian Couple Rejected by Adoption Agency for their Christian ValuesSeptember 15, 2021 — 09/15/2021 Canada (International Christian Concern) – A Christian couple in Canada was recently rejected by an adoption agency for not affirming transgenderism. The husband, who chose to keep his and...
Church Buildings Burned in Canada and the United StatesJuly 27, 2021 — 07/27/2021 Canada (International Christian Concern) – A number of churches in the Canada and the United States have been vandalized by criminals, some of whom claim to be acting in...
International Pressure Mounts on Imran Khan Over Offensive InterviewJune 23, 2021 — 06/23/2021 Canada (International Christian Concern) – A Canadian-based NGO is calling for the removal of a CBC interview with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. The group, Canadian Aid to Persecuted...
Canadian Member of Parliament Advocates for Yaqoob Bashir MasihApril 12, 2021 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"] 04/12/2021 Canada (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned Canadian Member of Parliament Garnett Genuis has written a letter to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan...
Conservatives Push for Resurrection of Canadian Office of Religious FreedomsMarch 24, 2021 — 03/24/2021 Canada (International Christian Concern) - Calls are being made in Canada for the resurrection of the Office of Religious Freedoms with advocates saying that it’s closure by Liberals within the Canadian...
China Harasses Canadian Catholics from Hong KongOctober 30, 2020 — 10/30/2020 Hong Kong (International Christian Concern) – Beijing has extended its surveillance and harassment to anyone residing in other countries who is considered anti-China. In a webinar held yesterday, a...
Blasphemy Laws in the WestDecember 14, 2019 — By guest contributor Peyton Millea The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom released a report in 2017 on blasphemy laws around the world. At that time, seventy-one countries had these...
Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim says he would still return to North Korea if invitedAugust 29, 2017 — ICC Note: Canadian-Korean Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim, recently released by North Korean government after 2.5 years of incarceration, expresses his willingness to return to the country if invited. In an...
Canadian Pastor Imprisoned in North Korea Arrives Back HomeAugust 14, 2017 — ICC Note: Pastor Lim Hyeon-Soo, a Canadian-Korean who was previously held in a North Korean prison for the past 2.5 years, was released late last week and has arrived at his...
Canadian Pastor Hyeon-Soo Lim Released by North KoreaAugust 9, 2017 — Pastor Lim Released as North Korea's Longest-Held Western Prisoner in Decades 08/09/2017 Washington D.C. – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Hyeon-Soo Lim, a Korean-Canadian pastor at the Light...
