Lawsuit Against Karimun Church Renovation Retracted
03/22/2020 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – The lawsuit against the construction of a renovated building for the St Joseph Catholic Church in Karimun,...
Four Christians Killed in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Sources Say
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed four Christians in Kaduna state on Sunday (April 19), a day after an Anglican...
American Pastor Returns Home After Seven Month Detention in India
05/23/2020 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – In October 2019, Pastor Bryan Nerren, an American pastor from Tennessee, was detained for allegedly failing...
105,000 Kachin IDPs Trapped in Myanmar Camps
06/14/2020 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – Civil war between the Myanmar Army (Tatmadaw) and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) on northern Myanmar’s Kachin...
Nigeria: 1,202 Defenseless Christians Hacked to Death by Jihadists in Six Months (Jan-June 2020)
Threats to citizens’ rights to freedom of worship and religion in Nigeria; the world’s first human right, have continued unabated with hacking...
Burmese Canadian Pastor Gets Three Months for Defying COVID-19 Ban
08/09/2020 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – David Lah, the Burmese Canadian pastor who defied the COVID-19 Natural Disaster ban on large group gatherings...
Churches targeted despite positive developments
A temporary straw church building belonging to the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) in Jabarona, Ombada, Omdurman, was set on fire on...
Egyptian Church claims remains of last of 21 Christians martyred by Islamic State in...
The remains of a Ghanaian Christian martyred by Islamic State in Libya, murdered alongside 20 Egyptian Christians more than five years ago, were taken...
Another Pakistani Christian Girl Becomes Victim of Forced Conversion and Forced Marriage
10/30/2020 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Pakistani Christian girl, is the latest victim in the pattern of the kidnapping,...
House Church in Southern India Illegally Ordered to Close
11/26/2020 India (International Christian Concern) – Grace Prayer House, a church affiliated with the Indian Pentecostal Church, in India’s Tamil Nadu state was...
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WCC executive committee statement urges “Christian witness and action for human dignity and human...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee published a statement entitled “Christian witness and action for human dignity and human rights,” in...
Four Students Injured as Myanmar Military Shells Bible School in Shan State
Four men were wounded as a Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) shell struck the premises of a Bible school in northern Shan State on November 3.
WCC acting general secretary: “We are a fellowship united by faith for action”
In his last report to the World Council of Churches (WCC) executive committee, WCC acting general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Sauca...