October 21, 2019 | For Immediate Release Coalition Urges ‘Statement of Solidarity’ to Share with Hong Kong Brothers and Sisters in Christ WASHINGTON—For several months, Christians around the world, along…
Christian Post | Michael Gryboski | Oct. 21, 2019 Chinese government officials tear down a 3,000-seat church located in Anhui province in October 2019, according to the human rights group…
Fox News | Caleb Parke | Oct. 17, 2019 Authorities in China forcibly removed Christians and arrested several faith leaders gathered at a state-recognized church that suddenly was deemed "illegal" by the…
FoxNews|Brie Stimson | Oct. 9, 2019 The Chinese government plans to restrict visas for some Americans, specifically those employed by the U.S. intelligence community and certain human rights groups, according…
CNBC | Jacob Pramuk | Oct. 8, 2019 The Trump administration put visa restrictions on Chinese officials Tuesday amid ongoing abuses of Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region. Secretary of…
Juicy Ecumenism | Faith McDonnell | Oct. 3, 2019 (And to all those in Hong Kong who long for freedom — By your Christian brothers and sisters in the United…
USCIRF | Oct. 1, 2019 On China’s National Day, USCIRF Urges U.S. Government to Take Action on Religious Freedom WASHINGTON, DC – Today marks the 70th anniversary of the People’s…
***NEWS RELEASE*** | For Immediate Release |October 1, 2019 Over 1,000 Signers Urge Them Not to Meet with Squire Patton Boggs or Other Firms Representing Regimes that Persecute People of…
BP News | September 30, 2019 It is widely understood that there is virtually no such thing as religious freedom in North Korea. No less than 75 percent of North…
Catholic San Francisco | Beth Griffin, Catholic News Service | Sept. 28, 2019 Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, speaks at the United Nations Sept. 27, 2019, during a…
Videos and Transcripts of the Speakers For Immediate Release |September 27, 2019 Save The Persecuted Christians Urges Costs for the Persecutors WASHINGTON, D.C. —One of the most extraordinary programs ever…
Church in Chains | Sept. 25, 2019 In early September, it was reported that six Uighur Christians had recently been imprisoned in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. The six…
Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett | Sept. 22, 2019 Thirteen South Korean families living in China as part of a mission group were deported after Communist officials decided the…
Persecution.org | Sept. 12, 2019 A video obtained by The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), a Christian NGO that supports persecuted Christians globally, shows how the North Korean government sees…
FoxNews | Caleb Parke | Sept. 5, 2019 A pastor on the China-North Korea border shared his faith with at least 1,000 North Koreans in the Hermit Kingdom before he was assassinated in…
i Commit to Pray | Aug. 29, 2019 Officials closed a church in Central Indonesia after neighbors protested its existence. Pastor Tigor Yunus Sitorus built a home in the Bantul…
World | June Cheng in Hong Kong | Aug. 29, 2019 On a stiflingly hot August night, about 100 Christians gathered outside the Government House, the official residence of Hong…
Rev. Hkalam Samson Targeted for Conversation with US President Persecution | Aug. 29, 2019 08/29/2019 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 26,…
Back to Jerusalem | Aug. 28, 2019 Rachel (not her real name) got a text message on her phone that her church in Shanghai was going to meet today on…
FaithWire | By Will Maule | Aug 28, 2019 As pro-democracy demonstrators continue to mount a mass resistance against China’s communist rule in Hong Kong, the region’s Christian community has…
I Commit to Pray | Aug. 22, 2019 A Hmong believer has been hospitalized as a result of poor treatment in prison, where he has spent the last year on…
Li Sent Back to Hometown After Eight Months Imprisonment Aug. 19, 2019 | International Christian Concern International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that over the weekend, elder Li Yingqiang from…
August 19, 2019 | For Immediate Release Organization Urges Christians Here in the U.S. to Not Only Pray for Their Chinese Brothers and Sisters in Christ But Also Advocate for…
Aug. 12, 2019 | International Christian Concern Imprisoned Pastor Wang Yi Continues to Face Legal Persecution International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 10, Early Rain Covenant Church…
Aug. 6, 2019 | The Christian Post | Leah MarieAnn Klett In efforts to bring Christianity further under government control, authorities in China have erased the words "Bible," "God" and…
Apr 10, 2018 | Christian Post | By Samuel Smith VIENNA, Virginia — Over 15 years after she was rescued from a year-long abduction by Islamic terrorists in a Philippine jungle, Kansas…
Aug. 5, 2019 | Persecution News Arakan Army Releases Captives Following Confidential Negotiations 08/05/2019 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 1,…
July 27, 2019 | CBN News | Andrea Morris Pastor John Cao breaks a ground on a new school in Wa State, Myanmar. The prominent Chinese pastor was detained by…
Sentence Upheld After Repeated Delays on Appeal Hearing (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on July 25, a court in China’s Yunnan province announced its…
July 25, 2019 | Christian Headlines China’s central government has intensified its crackdown on Christianity in recent months by pressuring local government officials to keep a count on the number…
July 24, 2019 | Morning Star News Early Rain Covenant Church members in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. (China Aid) Authorities in China have added “illegal business activities” to the subversion charge…
Christian Post | By Samuel Smith | July 24, 2019 North Korean defector Illyong Ju speaks with the press at the U.S. State Department's Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at…
In a country where as many as 2 million Uighurs and other Muslims are imprisoned in concentration camps, tortured and forced by Chinese officials to renounce their faith, one man’s reported crimes of religious…
WASHINGTON—Despite the stuffy summer humidity, about 2,000 people donning yellow shirts congregated at Capitol Hill on July 18 to call for an end to the persecution of the spiritual practice…
July 18, 2019 | The Journal of Political Review | Open Letter Dear President Trump, Over America’s exceptional history, successive generations have risen to the challenge of protecting and furthering…
As part of their curricula, the young are taught at schools that believing in God is abnormal; teachers encourage them to report on their religious relatives. Since the adoption of…
Extremism 'still strong' in Indonesian colleges Muslims from hard-line groups stage a rally in Jakarta in this Nov. 2, 2018 file photo. Islamic groups are still trying to spread intolerance…
June 3, 2019 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STPC Leaders Call on Prominent Law Firm to Cease Representation of Communist China a Known Persecutor of People of Faith WASHINGTON—Thirty years ago,…
As the faithful grow in number, Beijing steps up repression that is wide and deep. June 4, 1989, was a seminal day for China’s faithful, as the Chinese government massacred…
"Turkish police interrupted a baptism ceremony in the city of Bolu while conducting a raid against a church composed of Iranian Christian asylum seekers." Turkish police interrupted a baptism ceremony…