Detained Chinese rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang nominated for Dutch Human Rights Tulip award

August 22, 2017 — ICC Note: Chinese Christian human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was nominated for the Dutch government’s 2017 Human Rights Tulip award. His work is seen as courageous and innovative as he...

Joshua Wong’s Mother Urges Son to ‘Be Courageous’ Like Old Testament Heroes After Prison Sentence

August 22, 2017 — ICC Note: Last Thursday, Hong Kong's Court of Appeal sentenced Wong, Nathan Law Kwun-chung and Alex Chow Yong-kang to six to eight months in jail, three years after they helped...

Chinese Christian human rights lawyer to stand trial

August 22, 2017 — ICC Note: Prominent Christian lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who took on sensitive cases such as defending practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, disappeared last November while visiting the family...

The funerals of Catholic bishops show the government’s double standards

August 18, 2017 — ICC Note: Catholic bishops Paul Xie Tingzhe (Urumqi, Xinjiang) and Sylverster Li Jiantang (Taiyuan, Shanxi) both recently passed away. While they had similar life stories – both spent decades of...

Renowned Christian Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Disappeared, Says Wife

August 17, 2017 — ICC Note: Chinese Christian Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng has gone missing since August 13. He has been under house arrest for the last three years, with limited access to...

Hong Kong activist arrested over claim Chinese agents stapled his legs

August 15, 2017 — ICC Note: Howard Lam Tsz-kin, a member of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, was allegedly kidnapped and tortured by Chinese secret agents. At the press conference last week, he...

Canadian Pastor Imprisoned in North Korea Arrives Back Home

August 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...

Christian Rights Activists in Vietnam Charged with Serious ‘Crimes’

August 11, 2017 — ICC Note: Mr. Nguyen Van Dai, a human rights lawyer and well-known defender of religious freedom in Vietnam has been held in prison without trial, with limited contact with the...

Hong Kong Protestant Tortured for Showing Concern for Liu Xia and His Faith

August 11, 2017 — ICC Note: Howard Lam Tsz-kin, a member of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, was kidnapped and tortured by Chinese agents over an autograph signed by soccer star Lionel Messi...

600 Days Have Passed, Vietnamese Christian lawyer Nguyen Van Dai Still Imprisoned

August 10, 2017 — ICC Note: On December 16, 2015, 25 police officers arrested Mr. Nguyen Van Dai, a human rights lawyer and well-known defender of religious freedom at his house in Hanoi after...

Canadian Pastor Hyeon-Soo Lim Released by North Korea

August 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...

Falsely Accused Christian Emerges from 2 Years in Jail, Stronger in Faith

August 8, 2017 — ICC Note: Zhang Xiuhong, Huoshi Church’s accountant and chairwoman of the board of deacons was released a few days ago after serving 2 years in prison. She was detained by...

Chinese Christians Continue ‘House Church’ Gatherings Despite Intensified Religious Crackdown

August 8, 2017 — ICC Note: Last month, director of China's State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) Wang Zuoan, published an article in a Communist Party journal banning religion for its approximately 90 million...

Protestant Church in Philippines Renews Pleas for Release of its Bishop

August 7, 2017 — ICC Note: Bishop Carlos Morales was arrested with his wife, driver and a companion at a checkpoint in the village of Gango in Ozamis City in the Philippines last May....

Christian Carpenter Trapped in Marawi War Zone Rescued by Philippine Military

August 3, 2017 — ICC Note: Pro-ISIS terrorists launched an assault on one of the biggest southern cities in the Philippines last May, trapping hundreds of civilians, and the fighting is dragging on. More...

Christians in Indonesia are facing increasing religious intolerance

August 2, 2017 — ICC Note: The freedom of religion report recently issued by Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has raised concerns including social hostility, the closure of places of worship, harassment and threats of...