Paul: The Marks of a True Apostle — When Suffering Becomes the Proof of Authentic Ministry
By Pieter Vermeulen, ICC Board Member, as part of a series, “Persecuted but not Forsaken.” Few figures in the history of the church embodied the cost ...
Persecution News
ICC Releases Report Exposing Nigeria’s $10 Million Genocide Cover-Up
A new report from International Christian Concern (ICC) highlights how Nigeria’s government is weaponizing misinformation to hide a decades-long campa...
Demolition of Monastery Highlights Strain on Christians in the Middle East
According to reporting by Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) last week, the Israeli military demolished a Catholic monastery and a nuns’ school in a...
Russian Missionaries Arrested
On April 29, four Christians were fined by the peace court of the Kirovsky district of Kazan, Russia, for “illegal missionary work.” They were each fi...
Families in Eastern Kenya Struggle with Mounting Grief
While sitting at home in Eastern Kenya, Munyoki Muthui finds himself surrounded by a heavy silence. The elderly father, who has tirelessly cared for o...
ADF Attacks Several Villages in Eastern DRC
After a brief calm, Christians who had fled and resettled in Eastern DRC faced renewed ADF assaults. On May 5, ADF attacks occurred at Katerrain and M...
Christians Attacked While Constructing Church
On Apr. 7, 2026, a group of Christians was injured while constructing a church building in western Ethiopia near the border with Sudan. A mob of Musli...
Pastor's Family Beaten, Jailed for Prayer Meeting
Five Christians in a majority-Buddhist area of Sri Lanka were beaten and jailed after false allegations against them led to a mob attack. Oshana and h...
Praise Report on Eritrean Christian
An Eritrean Christian evangelist living in the Middle East has successfully received his residency permit. In January 2025, VOM posted a request to iC...
Why We Retracted a Report About Violence in Afghanistan
On April 30, Christianity Today published a report about an attack by Muslim extremists on an underground church near Bamiyan, Afghanistan. It also me...
Community Grieves Teenage Christian's Death
The death of a Christian teenager has left a void in Mwingi, Kenya. During a recent evening in the Nguni area, Somali gunmen moving through grazing ro...
North Korea Prisoners to Receive Human Rights Award
Three Korean missionaries detained for more than a decade in North Korea will receive the Graciela Fernandez Meijide Human Rights Award in August in a...
BJP Expands State Power as Concerns Grow for India’s Religious Minorities
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured a sweeping set of state-level victories, tightening its political grip across key regions and ...
Nigerian Army Silent as Extremists Kill 9, Destroy Crops
Armed attackers killed at least nine Christians, including a Nigerian soldier, in a devastating spree across Plateau state. The attackers also destroy...
PARENTS OF MISSIONARIES KILLED IN HAITI: "I Want to Point People to Jesus"
Last week, David and Alicia Lloyd, founders of Missions in Haiti, told the story of the day in 2024 when gangs attacked their ministry compound. When ...
Mwingi Communities Protest After Deadly Attacks
Recent violence in Mwingi, Kenya, has left families grieving and disrupted ordinary life, shifting the community from peace to fear and uncertainty. T...
Three Years Later, Manipur Christians Still on Edge
There’s no end in sight to the ethnic conflict that began three years ago between the Christian-majority Kuki-Zo and Hindu Meitei communities in Manip...
When Persecution Fuels the Mission: The Early Church Discovers the Cost of Following Jesus
By Pieter Vermeulen, ICC Board Member, as part of a series, “Persecuted but not Forsaken.” The Book of Acts tells the story of the early church as it ...
Local Pressure Prevents Church Construction in Indonesia
The controversy surrounding the construction of the Toraja Church house of worship in the Sungai Keledang area of Samarinda Seberang District, in Ea...
Why the Government Can’t Get Control in Nigeria
By Lisa Navarrette, ICC Fellow The question of why the government cannot fully contain Christian persecution in Nigeria is often asked with frustratio...