International Christian Concern | Jan. 17, 2019 The 2018 Christmas season was discouraging and painful for many Christian communities across India, as International Christian Concern (ICC) documented at least 25…
International Christian Concern | Jan. 17, 2019 The 2018 Christmas season was discouraging and painful for many Christian communities across India, as International Christian Concern (ICC) documented at least 25…
International Christian Concern | Jan. 8, 2019 On January 2, the government of the Punjab province in Pakistan mandated that churches comply with set security standards by March 31 or…
International Christian Concern | Jan. 1, 2019 On December 25, a mob of 30 Hindu radicals from the Bajrang Dal stopped four buses carrying 200 children on their way to…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 24, 2018 Despite being acquitted in October, Asia Bibi is set to celebrate her first Christmas off death row in hiding and under guard in…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 23, 2018 Police in Pakistan are beefing up security for Christians as the minority community prepares to celebrate Christmas. Christians across Pakistan face a sense…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 22, 2018 After 13 years of operations, World Vision has been kicked out of Pakistan along with 17 other charities. With this move, Pakistan has…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 21, 2018 Pakistan’s Christians are facing an uneasy Christmas holiday this year. Many fear their community will be targeted and attacked by the country’s extremists…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 20, 2018 On November 11, 2018, a mob of 300 Hindu radicals reportedly terrorized a group of Christian children as they attended a Sunday school…
International Christina Concern | Dec. 18, 2018 In a matter of only five days, Christians in India’s southern state of Telangana endured three separate attacks. These attacks have some fearing…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 18, 2018 Two Christian brothers, Qaisar and Amoon Ayub, were sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan for allegedly posting blasphemous material on a…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 17, 2018 On November 11, a regular Christian gathering of nearly 600 people was shut down by police in Pure Pande Pululiki village, located in…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 15, 2018 India continued on a downward trend in regards to religious freedom according to the U.S. State Department’s 2018 report on international religious freedom.…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 14, 2018 Last Saturday, December 9, Pastor Sojan was arrested and detained by police in Bakhtiyarpur village, located in the Patna district of India’s Bihar…
1International Christian Concern | Dec. 14, 2018 The results of five state elections have come as a massive relief for Christians and other religious minorities in India. The elections resulted…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 5, 2018 On December 1, more than 1,100 Christians staged a peace rally in Varanasi, the holy city of Hinduism, against rising levels of persecution.…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 4, 2018 On Sunday, December 2, a mob of 150 Hindu radicals broke into a private hall being used to conduct a Christian worship service…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 3, 2018 Pope Francis paid tribute to the legacy of Shahbaz Bhatti on November 30 while speaking to members of the Shahbaz Bhatti Mission Association.…
International Christian Concern | Dec. 1, 2018 It has been over a month since Asia Bibi has been acquitted of blasphemy charges after being on death row for nearly a…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 29, 2018 Hundreds of Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state were turned away from voting booths because their names were no longer on the voter…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 28, 2018 Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, has offended both Christians and Muslims by claiming that there is no historical record of Jesus…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 27, 2018 Earlier this month, a pastor and his congregation were severely beaten in India’s Bihar state. In addition to accusations of forced conversion, a…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 27, 2018 On October 23, Pastor John Lakra and his family were driving to a hospital in Sundargarh, Odisha to seek emergency treatment for their…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 26, 2018 Kamareddy, a district in India’s Telangana State, has witnessed frequent attacks on Christians this year. The latest attack took place on November 9…
Clarion Project | Nov. 25, 2018 Proving to the world it is anything but irrelevant, ISIS in recent days reportedly mounted attacks in Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Libya and…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 24, 2018 Authorities in Pakistan have arrested the leader of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan Party, Khadim Hussain Rizvi. Rizvi was responsible for organizing the violent and…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 21, 2018 Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has demanded that the U.S. Government cut off all aid to Pakistan until Asia Bibi, a Christian woman recently…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 20, 2018 Police in Pakistan have warned Christians that terrorists are planning an attack on their community following the Asia Bibi acquittal. According to Agenzia…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 18, 2018 On November 14, during a regular prayer meeting held by local believers in Chaphar village in Uttar Pradesh, villagers forcefully interrupted the fellowship…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 17, 2018 A tribal movement, Advasi Ho Samaj, under the influence of Hindu extremists persuaded villagers that they must drive Christian families out of their…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 14, 2018 Pakistani Christians are reportedly living in fear that their community will face severe backlash following the acquittal of Asia Bibi. On October 31,…
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 14, 2018 Several countries have offered asylum to the Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi, after she was acquitted by the country’s highest court last month of a…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 12, 2018 The United Kingdom has “not offered” Asia Bibi, a Christian woman acquitted of committing blasphemy in Pakistan, asylum because of fears that the…
The Washington Times | Nov. 12, 2018 It was already an eventful first 100 days for Prime Minister Imran Khan, the onetime cricket star who broke the mold of Pakistani politics…
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 7, 2018 Bangladesh’s prime minister has pledged that anyone who offends Islam or its prophet will be prosecuted. Sheikh Hasina said the religion of Bangladesh…
World Watch Monitor | Nov. 1, 2018 Asia Bibi was on death row for blasphemy, after offering drinking water which she, as a Christian, was considered to have made “unclean” by…
International Christian Concern | Nov. 6, 2018 On October 31, Pakistan’s Supreme Court acquitted Asia Bibi, a Christian woman formally on death row for committing blasphemy. This announcement was met…
Gatestone Institute | 110618 The joy over the acquittal of Asia Bibi lasted barely 24 hours. The Christian mother of five from Pakistan was forced to spend eight years in…
International Christian Concern | November 5, 2018 Christians living in India’s northeastern state of Assam are concerned by a series of attacks on their community over the past month. Starting…
International Christian Concern | November 4, 2018 Seven Christians in Agra, a city located in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, were attacked and beaten with hockey sticks by dozens of Bajrang…