Chinese Christians Banned from Providing Relief to Flood Victims

July 29, 2021 — 07/28/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – The recent deadly floods in central China's Henan province have taken away dozens of lives and caused immense damage to several cities, yet the...

Chinese Police Again Summon ERCC Preacher for Questioning

July 27, 2021 — 07/27/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – Sichuan police continued their persistent harassment of the Chengdu-based Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC). On July 17, officers again seized Wu Wuqing, who is...

PGI Concerned about the Lack of Progress for Aceh Churches’ Building Permit

July 25, 2021 — 07/25/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – A recent video of a church congregating under thatched roofs and tarpaulins in Aceh Singkil Regency has gone viral in the country. This church’s...

Chinese Authorities Interrupt Virtual Church Service

July 23, 2021 — 07/23/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – Last week, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials reportedly interrupted a church service held virtually over zoom. During the morning of July 11, CCP security...

Chinese Officials Raid a Christian Funeral, Remove Christian Symbols

July 21, 2021 — 07/21/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – Recently, a house church in Guiyang City, Guizhou province hosted a memorial service for an elderly Christian at a local funeral home. Before the...

Christian Farming Villages Continue to be Destroyed in Nigeria

July 19, 2021 — 07/19/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – More than 11,000 people were displaced from 16 different villages last week in the Miango community of Nigeria’s Plateau State. Militant Fulani Herdsmen were...

Chinese Street Preacher Released After Being Held Under Surveillance

July 17, 2021 — 07/17/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – On June 19, Zhejiang Province’s state security officers arrested Chen Wensheng, a Christian from Hengyang City, Hunan province. After transporting him back to Hengyang,...

Fate of Imprisoned Chinese Bishop Still Unknown

July 16, 2021 — 07/16/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – The bishop of Xixiang (Henan province), Joseph Zhang Weizhu was arrested in May alongside ten priests and seminarians at a Catholic seminary. His fate...

China’s Latest Ban of Christian Content on Social Media

July 13, 2021 — 07/13/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – In a recent crackdown on online Christian content, the Chinese government banned the WeChat accounts belonging to many registered churches. WeChat is a popular...

Christians Family Extorted Over Burial of Their Dead

July 12, 2021 — 07/12/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – In Indonesia, where Christians are a religious minority, it is often difficult for them to obtain plots of land in cemeteries to bury their...

CCP Unveils Propaganda Exhibit on Christianity in Shanghai

July 9, 2021 — 07/09/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – On June 29, human rights publication Bitter Winter released an article stating that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has unveiled an exhibition claiming that ...

Chinese Police Refuse Visits to Incarcerated Church Elder

July 7, 2021 — 07/07/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – Zhang Chunlei, an elder at Love Reformed Church in Guiyang, was officially arrested on May 7, 2021, after being detained for seven weeks. He...

Persecuted Chinese Christians Arrive in the United States

July 6, 2021 — 07/06/2021 China (International Christian Concern) – Late at night on December 9, 2018, officials from the Chinese Communist Party raided Early Rain Covenant Church (ERCC), seizing and interrogating hundreds of...

Christian Advocate Attacked in Sudan

July 6, 2021 — 07/06/2021 Sudan (International Christian Concern) –According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Boutros Badawi, a Christian activist and advisor to Sudan’s Minister of Religious Affairs, was attacked last week in the capital...

Kachin Baptist Pastors Jailed for Holding Peace Prayers

July 2, 2021 — 07/02/2021 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – On June 28th, three pastors from Kachin state were detained and charged for organizing prayers for peace. They are now facing three years in...

Malaysian Government Withholds Evidence Concerning Missing Pastor

June 27, 2021 — 06/27/2021 Malaysia (International Christian Concern) – Malaysian pastor Joshua Hilmy, disappeared along with his Indonesian wife, Ruth Sitepu, on November 30, 2016. Joshua was a Muslim before converting to Christianity....