Diplomatic Negotiations Prevent Recognition of Myanmar’s Military Junta at UN

September 27, 2021 — 09/27/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) - According to a report from Foreign Policy, the United States and China brokered an agreement to prevent Myanmar's military-led government from being recognized at...

U.S. Pressure Mounts as Iranian Religious Freedom Conditions Continue to Deteriorate

August 19, 2021 — 08/19/2021 Iran (International Christian Concern) - Despite Afghanistan taking most of the attention of the United States in recent weeks, the administration continues to be poised against the growing hostility...

Afghanistan: A Call to Action

August 18, 2021 — 08/18/2021 Afghanistan (International Christian Concern) – The situation in Afghanistan is constantly changing, and most of the news we're hearing from inside the country is bleak. Christians are Afghanistan's most...

The West Needs a Coordinated Response to Afghanistan

August 18, 2021 — 08/18/2021 Afghanistan (International Christian Concern) – As Afghanistan descends into further chaos, with anti-Taliban protests rising in Jalalabad and reports of Taliban brutality increasing, the international community cannot sit idly by. They must form a comprehensive, multilateral...

International Religious Freedom Should Remain a U.S. Foreign Policy Focus

August 10, 2021 — 08/10/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) – With President Biden’s nomination of Rashad Hussain to serve as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, the administration is showing support for the global...

Uncertain Fate for Afghanistan’s Christians

August 9, 2021 — 08/09/2021 Afghanistan (International Christian Concern) – As cities fall to a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, the future of that country’s Christian population grows more uncertain. The US troop withdrawal has...

Former Diplomat and DOJ Attorney Rashad Hussain Nominated for IRF Ambassador

August 2, 2021 — 08/02/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) – The Biden administration has nominated a new Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. Rashad Hussain is entering the confirmation process and is...

Church Buildings Burned in Canada and the United States

July 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...

Freedom House Downgrades India’s Freedom Status

March 8, 2021 — 03/08/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) – Freedom House, a well-known think tank, has downgraded India’s freedom status from “Free” to “Partly Free.” The decision came as a result of...

Senate Moves to Establish Human Rights Commission

March 2, 2021 — 03/02/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) – U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), who currently serve as the co-chairs of the Senate Human Rights Caucus, introduced a...

U.S. Officials Condemn Chinese Pastor Imprisonment

January 3, 2020 — 01/03/2020 China (International Christian Concern) – Following the sentencing of Pastor Wang Yi on December 26, the Trump administration has condemned the Chinese authorities’ actions. Pastor Wang Yi has been...

US Evangelists Sit with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince

September 11, 2019 — 09/11/2019 Saudi Arabia (International Christian Concern) – US Evangelists and leaders traveled to Saudi Arabia this week, on the eve of 9/11, to meet with the Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin...

US Church Sprayed With Bible Verse About The Killing Of 185,000 Assyrian Christians

December 6, 2016 — ICC Note: An Assyrian church in the San Fernando Valley of California was recently vandalized and graffiti-ed with a verse referencing the killing of 185,000 Middle East Christians. Assyrian Christians,...

U.S. Unlikely to Lift Sanctions on Burma due to Slow Progress on Human Rights Reform

May 11, 2016 — ICC NOTE: Like many other countries deemed either dangerous to the U.S. or dangerous the indigenous people, the government has placed many sweeping economic sanctions against them. Myanmar is no...

U.S. Recognizes Human Rights Abuses in Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia

April 14, 2016 — ICC NOTE: Human rights abuses in Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia seem to be a daily recurring problem for activists and religious minorities. The Rohingya and ethnic Christian minorities of Myanmar...

A Self-governed Kurdish Region would Kill Christianity in Syria According to Assyrian Expert

February 5, 2016 — ICC NOTE: According to a the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) a U.S. envoy met with Kurdish leaders in northern Syria and said they have a "right" to an...