UGANDA – Christian Mother, Pastor Fear for their Lives after Attacks in Eastern Uganda
Morning Star News | Jan. 11, 2019 Muslims in eastern Uganda sent a Christian mother to the hospital with injuries from a beating in one village and tore down a…
ALGERIA – Algeria: Update on Christians acquitted of charges
Middle East Concern | Jan. 10, 2019 On 26 December 2018, MEC reported that four Christians from Muslim backgrounds, including three from the same family, were acquitted of proselytism charges…
CHINA – China Now Demands “Church-Free Zones” Near Schools
International Christian Concern | Jan. 10, 2019 According to recent documents issued in China’s northern Shanxi province and central Henan province, China is now establishing ‘church-free zones’ near schools while…
NIGERIA – Christian Community Devastated by Years Fulani Militant Violence
International Christian Concern | Jan. 8, 2019 The Christian community of Dogo Awo village, located in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, has been devastated by years of Fulani militant violence. The village…
PAKISTAN – Pakistani Christians Fear New Security Mandate May Lead to Church Closures
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…
PHILIPPINES – 2000 Soldiers Will be Deployed to Secure Philippines’ Black Nazarene Feast
International Christian Concern | Jan. 8, 2019 Every year on January 9, millions of Filipinos gather in Manila for a procession of the Black Nazarene, a life-sized, dark-colored wooden statue…
EGYPT – Egyptian Convert Stands Firm for Christ Against All Odds
International Christian Concern | Jan. 8, 2019 Growing up in Egypt as the son of an Islamic Sheikh, Mohamed’s life was filled with religion. As a Sheikh, his father was…
VIETNAM – Forced Eviction in Catholic Community of Loc Hung Leaves Hundreds of Families Homeless and Destitute, Including Many Political Activists
The 88 Project | Jan. 8, 2019 The 88 Project, January 8, 2019: 2019 started with a high-profile forced eviction against residents of Loc Hung vegetable garden, a Catholic residential…
UGANDA – Mother and Daughter Disowned for Converting to Christianity
International Christian Concern | Jan. 7, 2019 Adijah is living with a Christian family in Kisinga, Western Uganda, after she was threatened and disowned by her husband for becoming a…
EGYPT – Egypt’s President Sisi opens mega-mosque and Middle East’s largest cathedral in New Capital
Christian Today | Jan. 7, 2019 President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated Egypt's largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital on Sunday, the eve of Coptic Christmas, in a…
EGYPT – Militants kidnap Christian man in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
New Jersey Herald | Jan. 6, 2019 Islamic militants on Thursday kidnapped a Christian man traveling in a communal taxi in the turbulent north of Egypt's Sinai peninsula, according to…
‘Listen to Their Cry’: Churches Worldwide Take Part in Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians
The Christian Post | Nov. 4, 2018 As many as 100,000 congregations worldwide and millions of Christians are participating in a day of prayer for the persecuted church Sunday. Known…
Faith’s Top 10 International Religious Liberty Stories of 2018
Juicy Ecumenism | Jan. 5, 2019 Some American Christians are far more focused on conditions in their own church than on suffering fellow Christians around the world. They are less…
SYRIA – Christians fear Turkish attack could end Christianity in northeast Syria
Kurdistan |Jan. 5, 2019 A joint statement by Syriac Christian organizations in Syria, Europe, and the US on Thursday demanded the establishment of a no-fly zone to stop a possible…
EGYPT – Egypt police officer killed defusing church bomb: security source
France 24 - Jan. 5, 2019 A policeman was killed and two wounded in an explosion outside a church in Egypt on Saturday, a security source said. The blast took…
INDIA – Mob in India Harasses Children on Way to Christmas Program
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…
CHINA – An ‘atheist’ empire? Trump aides rally evangelicals in China fight
Politico | Dec. 30, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence infuriated Beijing when he gave a speech in October warning that China had become a dangerous rival to the United States.…
NIGERIA – Fulani Muslims kill 7 Christians day after Christmas; media narrative of clashes is false, watchdog says
The Christian Post | Dec. 28, 2018 Islamic Fulani radicals murdered seven Christians in a Nigerian town the day after Christmas, according to persecution watchdog group International Christian Concern. The ICC,…
TURKEY – The Coming ‘Turkish Jihadist Invasion’ Against Christians: A Christmas Plea from Syrians to US Christians
CBN News | December 27, 2018 In an open letter to Christians in the United States, the head of the Syriac Union Party pleaded that his people not be abandoned…
PAKISTAN – Asia Bibi to Celebrate Christmas in Hiding in Pakistan
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…
EGYPT – Pathway to Church Legalization Minimal in Egypt
International Christian Concern | Dec. 24, 2018 A report recently released by the Project on Middle East Democracy details how Egypt’s 2016 church legalization law has had a minimal positive…
IRAQ – The New Threat Iraq’s Christians
Real Clear Politics | Dec. 24, 2018 In March of 2017, with the battle for control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, raging just miles away, I was driven into…
IRAQ – Iraqi Curriculum Incites Violence Towards Religious Minorities
International Christian Concern | Dec. 23, 2018 Archbishop Louis Raphaël I Sako of Iraq’s Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon has asked the Ministry of Education to review offensive statements which exist…
PAKISTAN – Police Increase Security for Pakistani Christians in Preparation for Christmas
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…
MYANMAR – Lahu Christians Asks Wa Army to Re-open Churches
International Christian Concern | Dec. 23, 2018 United Wa State Army (UWSA) forcibly closed churches and a Bible school in the Wa region of Myanmar’s northern Shan State in September.…
PAKISTAN – Pakistan Forces Out World Vision and 17 Other Charities
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…
EGYPT – Egyptian Policeman Complicit in Church Attack
International Christian Concern |Dec. 22, 2018 Nearly a year ago, on December 29th, ICC reported about a terrorist attack against an Egyptian church in Helwan City. One of the attackers was wearing…
EGYPT – Christians of Kom al-Raheb Wait 17 Years for Church
International Christian Concern | Dec. 21, 2018 Earlier this month, ICC reportedhow the Christians in Upper Egypt’s village of Kom al-Raheb were targeted by mob violence because they were praying in…
PAKISTAN – Pakistan’s Christians Face Uneasy Christmas Holiday
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…
INDIA – Hindu Radicals Terrorize Christian Children Attending Sunday School in Southern India
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…
CHINA – Second Underground Chinese Bishop Replaced by Government-backed Bishop
International Christian Concern | Dec. 20, 2018 A second bishop from China’s underground Catholic church is stepping aside as the government replaces him with an excommunicated clergyman, state-run media Global…
ERITREA – Eritreans in Refugee Camps Fear Being Sent Home
International Christian Concern | Dec. 20, 2018 There are tens of Thousands of people in Northern Ethiopia that have been living in squaller and fear after they fled their homes…
IRAN – Iranian Christian Couple Arrested in Front of Daughter
International Christian Concern | Dec. 20, 2018 Amir Taleipour and his wife Mahnaz Harati were arrested during a raid on their home in the city of Mashhad by Iranian intelligence…
NIGERIA – Amnesty International Calls out Nigerian Government for Incompetency
International Christian Concern | Dec. 19, 2018 Amnesty International has claimed that the farmer-herder conflict in Nigeria, has only been exacerbated by continued incompetency and inaction by the government. They…
SRI LANKA – Christian Pastor in Sri Lanka Abducted and Tortured by Unknown Assailants
International Christian Concern | Dec. 19, 2018 According to a report by the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL), a Christian pastor was abducted and tortured by unknown…
EGYPT – Charges Filed Against Egyptian Officer Who Killed 2 Christians
International Christian Concern | Dec. 19, 2018 Criminal charges are pending against Egyptian police officer Rabi Mustapha Khalifa after he shot and killed two Coptic Christians last week. The prosecution…
WORLDWIDE – “America, Please Stand for Us: We are Dying!” Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2018
Raymond Ibrahim | Dec. 19, 2018 The Slaughter of Christians Central African Republic: As many as 42 people—mostly Christian women—“were hacked to death … after suspected Islamist rebels attacked a group…
SYRIA – Islamic State kills 700 prisoners in east Syria: Syrian Observatory
Reuters | Dec. 19, 2018 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday that Islamic State militants had executed nearly 700 prisoners in nearly two months in eastern Syria.…
VIETNAM – New religion-control law changes little in Vietnam after 1 year
World Watch Monitor | Dec. 18, 2018 Christian leaders in Vietnam largely agree that little has changed since the new Law on Belief and Religion came into effect January 1,…
INDIA – Indian Christians from Telangana Endure Three Attacks in Five Days
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…