Christians in India Stage March to Protest New Law
Thousands of Christians marched with torches on March 22 in Raipur, Chhattisgarh’s capital, to protest the state’s new anti-conversion law. Protestors...
Persecution News
Christians Mark Eid with Muslims in Nigeria Despite Ongoing Killings
Christians joined Muslims for Eid prayers and visits as security warnings spread across Taraba, Plateau, and Southern Kaduna states. The message of un...
Damascus Experiments with Restrictive Religious Social Codes
A decree issued in the Syrian capital of Damascus last week restricted the sale of alcohol, the latest incident hinting at increased religious conserv...
CENTRAL ASIA: Visions, Visas, and Venturing to Unreached People in Afghanistan
Brother Matthew was a worldly teenager when his mother decided she and her son needed to go to church. By the end of that first service, both of them ...
The First Martyr: What Cain and Abel Teach Us About Persecution
By Pieter Vermeulen, ICC Board Member, as part of a series, “Persecuted but not Forsaken.” The story of persecution in the Bible begins not in a battl...
Hope Walked Across the Graduation Stage
In September 2025, five young survivors of the African Islamist terrorist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) violence walked across a graduation sta...
Cuban Pastor, Son Arrested
Protests in Morón, Cuba, erupted the night of March 13 and lasted through the next day in response to a week of blackouts and shortages of medical and...
India’s Second-Largest State Passes Discriminatory Anti-Conversion Law
The Maharashtra Assembly passed a bill this week to legally regulate religious conversion. Ironically titled the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Bill ...
Christian Teenager Abducted, Forcibly Married to Muslim
In 2025, a 16-year-old Pakistani Christian named Reena took a job at a restaurant to help support her family. An older Muslim man who worked there tri...
Christian Leaders Arrested
Since the beginning of 2026, more than two dozen Christians, including converts and church leaders, have been arrested and detained without any charge...
Church Holds Service Despite Ban
On Dec. 24, 2025, Muslim leaders insisted on an official ban and pressured a local pastor in West Java province to cancel his church's planned holiday...
When Help Arrives at Just the Right Time
On Jan. 21, 2025, Hindu nationalists attacked Pastor Ishan Prasad and his family during a prayer meeting in their village in India, severely injuring ...
How Christian Girls Become Muslim Wives in Egypt
Comprising about 10% of Egypt’s current population, Copts are the largest Christian community in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Among...
China’s Persecution Has No Borders
By ICC Fellow Linda Burkle, PhD Fifteen years ago, I traveled to China with a friend and ministry partner to conduct a training conference for undergr...