Pakistani Christian Couple Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy Receives Asylum
08/15/2021 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – According to Eternity, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel, a Christian couple who were sentenced to death for...
Abducted Nigerian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu gives birth to second child while held captive
The abducted Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu has given birth to a second child while held captive by Islamist terror group Boko Haram.
House church leader formally arrested on fraud charges after weeks in detention
Zhang Chunlei, an elder of Love (Ren’ai) Reformed Church in Guiyang in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, has been officially arrested and accused...
New Report on Coptic Kidnappings
09/13/2020 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – Coptic Solidarity has released a new report entitled ‘Jihad of the Womb’: Trafficking of Coptic Women & Girls...
Five Christians in Northern India Arrested on False Forced Conversion Charges
02/14/2020 India (International Christian Concern) – On Tuesday, February 11, five Christians from India’s Uttar Pradesh state were taken into police custody after...
Taliban Reportedly Murders Three, Injures Others for Playing Music at Wedding
11/01/2021 Afghanistan (International Christian Concern) – At a wedding in eastern Afghanistan in the Surkh Rod district of Nangahar Province, Taliban members reportedly...
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,...
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...
Christian sanitation workers denied protective equipment die in poisonous sewer in Punjab, Pakistan
Two Christian sanitation workers died saving a Christian colleague tasked with clearing a sewer, known to be poisonous, in Sargodha, Punjab province,...
Al-Shabaab Kills 2, Injures 10 in Kenya
12/05/2021 Kenya (International Christian Concern) –Two police officers were killed and ten others injured in Kenya on Saturday when Al-Shabaab terrorists ambushed their...