Vision | September 28, 2020 With borders closed and security increased, Covid-19 has made it harder than ever for North Korean refugees – including those fleeing due to religious persecution…
Frontline | Zaya Salam | August 18 2020 At least two reports by Christian organisations in India say that life has been precarious for the members of the minority community during…
Vision | August 13, 2020 Oppression and discrimination towards Christians has only worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic according to Release International. The charity, which supports persecuted Christians, says many had…
Church Times | Henrietta Blyth | July 15, 2020 IN JULY 1955, a young Evangelical preacher, Anne van der Bijl — aka Brother Andrew, “God’s Smuggler” — took his first…
International Christian Concern | William Stark | July 10, 2020 In late March, a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan broadcast over its loudspeaker that it would be distributing government food aid…
International Christian Concern | June 4, 2020 Like many countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pakistan placed its population on lockdown to curb the spread of the virus. The lockdown…
International Christian Concern | May 29,2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has initiated global lockdowns, slowing down societies but not religious persecution. In the Middle East, where persecution was once defined by…
The Hill | Rep. Michael Waltz | May 27, 2020 The lockdowns and death in China began long before the first case of COVID-19 was ever reported. Though Xinjiang province…
International Christian Concern | May 25, 2020 An ordinance issued by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had many Christians, Muslims, and Parsees concerned about how those that died of…
International Christian Concern | Nathan Johnson | May 22, 2020 Distraught by the plight of his church family, John, a pastor in Mandera, Kenya, says that Christians in the northeastern…
Morning Star News | May 21, 2020 Unable to return to her home in western Uganda due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Rehema Kyomuhendo was in the eastern part of the…
Crux | John L. Allen Jr. | May 17, 2020 China, in a sense, has become the third rail of geopolitics, in the sense that anything it touches automatically becomes…
The Cable | May 15, 2020 The United Nations has warned that Boko Haram insurgents could exploit the COVID-19 pandemic to carry out attacks in parts of Nigeria. In its…
International Christian Concern | May 14, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Fulani militants conducted a major attack, beginning late in the evening on May 11, on the…
Aleteir | Maria Lozano | May 9, 2020 For those directly affected by consistent terrorist attacks in northern and eastern Burkina Faso, the coronavirus is “a disaster within a disaster,”…
Breitbart | Thomas D. Williams | May 5, 2020 The International Committee on Nigeria (ICON) has called for the appointment of U.S. Special Envoy to Nigeria, asserting that the country…
CHVN | Libby Giesbrecht | May 1, 2020 The Christian Church is rallying to feed other religious groups in Pakistan as they are denied food aid due to COVID-19. Many…
*** VIRTUAL EVENT ADVISORY *** Save the Persecuted Christians | April 30, 2020 Two-Hour Virtual Prayer Beginning at 2 p.m. ET Friday, May 1, Will Also Aim to Lift Up…
International Christian Concern | April 29, 2020 “My rations will run out in three or four days,” Pastor Radhe Kishan, a church planter from India, recently told International Christian Concern…
Juicy Ecumenism | Faith McDonnell | April 23, 2020 Many Americans recently have drawn some conclusions about the Chinese Communist regime. We agree that the CCP is responsible for the…
National Geographic | Nina Strochlic | April 22, 2020 EVERY MAY, THERE’S a party in northeastern Nigeria to celebrate a unique anniversary: the release of more than 100 young women from…
NDTV | April 20, 2020 A pregnant woman has died of starvation in Pakistan's Sindh province amid the coronavirus lockdown imposed in the country, according to media reports. Sughra Bibi,…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | April 20, 2020 As the COVID-19 outbreak begins in sub-Saharan Africa, hundreds of thousands of Christian believers, who are already persecuted for their faith,…
CHVN | Libby Giesbrecht | April 19, 2020 The persecution of Christians for their faith around the world is getting worse during the global COVID-19 pandemic. According to Open Doors USA,…
Agenzia Fides | April 18, 2020 The "Saylani Welfare International Trust" organization has acted by discriminating religious minorities in the distribution of food, for the Covid-19 emergency, in the Sindh…
USCIRF | April 13, 2020 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is troubled by the reports of food aid being denied to Hindus and Christians amid the spread…
International Christian Concern | April 13, 2020 The High Court appeal for a Christian couple in Pakistan, sentenced to death under the country’s notorious blasphemy laws, was delayed last week…
Christian Post | Stephen Enada | April 12, 2020 The Christian Season of Lent is coming to an end – and it’s certainly one for the books. With the spread…
Religion Unplugged | Lela Gilbert and Arielle Del Turco | April 12, 2020 Just a year ago on Easter Sunday 2019, at precisely 8:45 a.m., the clock on St. Anthony’s…
Save the Persecuted Christians | April 8, 2020 Continuous 24-Hour Prayer Vigil Brings Together People Around the World to Pray For and With Persecuted Christians WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC),…
Christian Today | April 7, 2020 The lockdown in much of the Western world due to coronavirus is a "timely reminder" of the plight of Christians imprisoned for their faith…
Morning Star News | April 3, 2020 Police arrested two pastors in Nepal on Saturday (March 28), falsely charging them with holding worship services amid the Himalayan country’s lockdown to…
Zenger | Lawrence Zongo | April 3 , 2020 Armed hordes of Muslim militants rampaged through villages in central Nigeria this week, killing unarmed farmers and burning people alive in their houses. In…
International Christian Concern | April 3, 2020 Christian leaders in Pakistan are reporting another incident in which Christians were denied government food aid amid the COVID-19 crisis. This marks the…
The Jerusalem Post | Leila Gilbert | MARCH 30, 2020 Call it COVID-19. Or novel coronavirus. Or the now-politically incorrect term “Chinese flu.” But thanks to the virus’s unrivaled global threat,…
Religion Unplugged | Lela Gilbert | March 26, 2020 “The new coronavirus kills one person every 10 minutes in Iran,” according to Kianush Jahanpur, Iran’s health ministry spokesman tweeted. “Based on…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | uscirf.gov March 16, 2020 Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released the following new factsheet on the global response…