Nearly 100,000 Displaced Due to Ongoing War in Rakhine State
11/23/2019 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – According to aid volunteers providing humanitarian assistance in Rakhine state, there are approximately 100,000 people displaced by...
Megachurch in China demolished, pastors detained
Authorities destroyed a church in China and detained its pastors over the weekend.
No legal papers ordering the church's...
Slowdown of church legalizations in Egypt continues with only 62 licenses approved
A downward trend continues with only 62 churches and church-affiliated building licences approved by Egyptian authorities in the latest batch announced on 23 September...
School Starts in Turkey, Genocide Implications Linger
09/22/2019 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – As the Turkish school year starts, a new media report indicates that there are less than 300...
Christians in Pakistan Mark the Sixth Anniversary of the All Saints Church Bombing
09/22/2019 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – On September 22, 2013, at approximately 11:45 a.m., two explosions erupted in the courtyard of All Saints...
Human rights activists urged the OSCE to monitor religious persecution in Crimea and Donbas
On September 19, a special event dedicated to the issues of religious freedom in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories of Crimea and Donbas...
Priest kidnapped for protecting Cuban migrants
A Mexican priest was kidnapped on 3 August after blocking an attempt by an organized criminal group to kidnap Cuban migrants from...
Chinese authorities remove words Bible, God and Christ from classic children’s stories in school...
Authorities in China have erased the words Bible, God and Christ from classic children’s stories including Robinson Crusoe and The Little Match Girl as part of moves to...
Jailed Chinese pastor facing second charge as six other Early Rain Church members seek...
Pastor Wang Yi, imprisoned for seven months in China on suspicion of incitement to “subvert state power”, is to face a second charge,...
Christian wins free speech battle in UK Court of Appeal
Christian Felix Ngole, thrown out of a UK university because of a private Facebook post he made on same-sex marriage, won his...