North Korean hackers use Android backdoor malware to target Christian groups in South Korea

November 21, 2017 — ICC Note: A North Korean hacker group called Lazarus created an Android malware app called “The Bible’ which could be used to target GodPeople organization, a group sympathetic to Christians...

Vietnam: Jailed pastor’s wife asks for UN intervention

November 20, 2017 — ICC Note: Since Pastor Nguyen Trung Ton went to prison for participating in human rights activities, his wife Nguyen Thi Lanh and two of their children have been harassed by...

Police question 13 Christians for holding church services in Guangdong

November 20, 2017 — ICC Note: A team of police officers and religious affairs bureau personnel have interrogated 13 Christians in Guangdong province, China accusing them of having held their religious service at ‘unapproved...

Thailand’s immigration detention centers ‘inhumane’ for refugees

November 19, 2017 — ICC Note: Refugees who end up coming to Thailand’s Immigration and Detention Camp’s (IDTs) face shockingly inhumane conditions. A young Rohingya girl who was waiting and hoping for help to...

Philippines: Amnesty urges independent probe into atrocities, bombings in battle for Marawi

November 17, 2017 — ICC Note: Investigation done by Amnesty International shows that the war in the Philippine city of Marawi between Islamic militants and the Philippine army was full of war crimes in...

No suspects identified yet in vandalism of Maguindanao church

November 16, 2017 — ICC Note: Suspects who have vandalized the Catholic Church in Shariff Aguak, the province of Maguindanao, are yet to be found, according to the Philippine authorities. In order to narrow...

Vietnam: Fresh concerns for Christians

November 15, 2017 — ICC Note: The NOW! Campaign joined by 14 Vietnamese and international organizations calls for release of 165 prisoners who were arrested for their political or religious beliefs in Vietnam. Christian...

Yugan authorities in China replace Jesus with Xi Jinping to help the poor

November 14, 2017 — ICC Note: In Yugan County, a poor rural area in Jiangxi, China, the local government is pressuring Christians to replace the image of Jesus with that of Chinese President Xi...

Sudan Keeps Ceasefire, but Still Persecutes Nuba Region

November 14, 2017 — ICC Note Although the ceasefire that the Sudanese government made with the SPLM is still holding, they are still persecuting the people of the Nuba Mountains in another way. They...

Vandalizing of chapel in Mindanao, Philippines sparks outrage

November 13, 2017 — ICC Note: The Police continues its search of suspected Islamic militants who have vandalized a Catholic chapel in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao. The authorities believe that Bangsamoro Islamic...

Report: The 50 countries where you cannot be a Christian in 2017

November 12, 2017 — ICC Note: Christian human rights watchdog organization Open Doors reveals in its latest research the top 50 countries where it is most difficult to practice the Christian faith, and rated...

Christian Human Rights Lawyer Disappears After Being Recaptured by Chinese Officials; Friends Beaten

November 10, 2017 — ICC Note: Nobel nominee, prominent Chinese Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng managed to escape from his hometown where he was under house arrest for 23 days. He and his...

Indonesia: Court recognizes native religions in landmark ruling

November 8, 2017 — ICC Note: A new chapter for religious freedom in Indonesia opens as the Constitutional Court on Tuesday affirms the status of all religious minorities as protected religious groups. In the...

Malaysia: Ministry’s ‘advice’ to church out of line, says Party leader

November 8, 2017 — ICC Note: Parti Cinta Sabah (*Love Sabah Party), a Malaysian political party has criticized the officers from the Home Ministry for telling church officials how to design books for Christian...

Christian Human Rights Lawyer Gao Zhisheng Escaped, Recaptured

November 8, 2017 — 11/08/2017 Washington D.C. – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that, with the help of two friends, Chinese Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng escaped in August from his home...

North Korea: Children Forced Into Hard Labor Inside ‘Orphanage Shelters,’ Defector Says

November 7, 2017 — ICC Note: Grace Jo, a North Korean defector who escaped from North Korea in 2006 shares her horrific experience working for the Kim regime as a kid. Grace Jo does...