Mentally Disabled Pakistani Christian Sentenced to Life in Prison
10/24/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – On September 28, Yaqoob Bashir, a 25-year-old mentally disabled Pakistani Christian, was sentenced to life in prison by the Session...
New People’s Army Gaining Influence in Philippines
10/20/2018 Philippines (International Christian Concern) – As fighting continues between security forces of the Mindanao island and pro-Islamic State militant groups, a rising threat emerges...
Police in Algeria Close Down Another Church
10/21/2018 Algeria (International Christian Concern) – Algerian police shut the doors of a church on October 16. Government officials ordered the church to close in...
Kachin Pastor Beaten by Burmese Militia Recounts His Ordeal
10/17/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Mading Zai Dan Bawm Ying is one of two Kachin youth pastors beaten by members of the Myanmar army-based Border...
Turkey Arrests Another American Missionary
10/20/2018 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – Only a day after pastor Andrew Brunson was released from his two-year detainment in Turkey, Turkish authorities have arrested...
Beaten, Kidnapped, Arrested – and Forced to Stop Evangelizing
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – When Pastor Mathai Varghese was beaten and abducted by Hindu extremists in Rajasthan state, India, police gave chase and...
Violence, Discrimination against Christians Escalate in Sri Lanka
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Attacks and other actions against Christians in Sri Lanka have escalated this year, with Hindu extremism beginning to take...
Increased Police Presence in Indonesia as Persecution Rises
10/13/2018 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – Indonesia, a Muslim-majority country, is seeing an increase in Christian persecution as the radical Islam rise in the nation....
Barnabas calls for withdrawal of Scotland’s “hate crime” posters that promote anti-Christian prejudice
Barnabas Fund called on the Scottish police to withdraw billboard posters launched by One Scotland on 26 September targeting “hate crime”; the posters appear...
NGO’s Urging North Korea to Improve Human Rights
10/14/2018 North Korea (International Christian Concern) – In North Korean there are on average 250,000 North Koreans imprisoned in camps and an additional 50,000 imprisoned...