Chinese Catholic Churches Violently Closed
07/06/2019 China (International Christian Concern)– Catholics in Fujian faced a series of severe crackdown operations against churches that refused to join the...
Three men convicted in Kenya of conspiracy over Garissa University massacre of Christian students
A court in Kenya convicted three men of helping Islamist extremists carry out a massacre at Garissa University in which 148 mainly-Christian students died...
Church in Afghanistan Requests Prayer for Peace
06/29/2019 Afghanistan (International Christian Concern) – Today marks the seventh-round of talks between the U.S. and Afghanistan with the goal of bringing the...
CSW calls for implementation of Supreme Court judgement on religious minorities
CSW calls on the government of Pakistan to strengthen protections for religious minorities, as directed in a Supreme Court judgement from 2014 which has...
Crackdown on Christians in Eritrea continues with pregnant women, children arrested in church raid
Pregnant women and children were arrested by security forces in a raid on a church in the city of Keren on Sunday 23 June,...
Judge blocks Nigerian state from screening and licensing pastors
A Nigerian judge sided with a Christian group on 19 June and told the Kaduna State government it has no right to screen and license...
New Christian in Algeria Sentenced for ‘Organizing Worship’ in His Home
TIZI-OUZOU, Algeria (Morning Star News) – A judge on June 16 handed a Christian father of two in northwest Algeria a suspended prison sentence...
7 Year Old Nigerian Boy Recounts Horror of Attack
06/30/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Morningstar News recently told the story of a 7-year-old boy who survived a Fulani militant attack while watching...
Court Refuses Appeal of Couple Fined for Possessing Christian Literature
06/22/2019 Azerbaijan (International Christian Concern)- On June 4, 2019, the Shirvan Appeal Court rejected a Baptist couple’s appeal against fines accrued on them...
Tribunal says China uses coercion in organ harvesting, targets religious minorities
An investigative tribunal has said that forced harvesting of organs for transplant continues in China, with religious minorities especially targeted.