An Yankui was at his home when officials arrested him at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 29 for an investigation on suspicion of “organizing illegal religious activities,” according to a police record presented ...

At least 70 members of the predominantly Christian Tiv ethnic group are feared dead following coordinated attacks on multiple communities in Chanchanji Council Ward of Takum Local Government Area, ...

More than 300 students and staff were abducted from a Catholic School in the Northern Region of Nigeria on Friday. International Christian Concern (ICC) President Shawn Wright issued a statement, ...

Recently, International Christian Concern (ICC) released a report on religious liberty in Morocco. According to that report, three areas of persecution still restrict freedom for Christians and ...

The turning point of the gospel story occurs when Jesus begins to explain to his disciples that his mission will lead to suffering. Until that moment, many of them believed the Messiah would establish ...

In commemoration of Christ’s birth, millions of Christians have made a pilgrimage to the “Holy Land” throughout the years. This last Christmas season, of course, was different, with the war raging in ...

In a January 2026 report, the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) detailed some of the world’s top perpetrators of violence against Christians across five continents. The group, with ...

The story of persecution in the Bible begins not in a battlefield or a courtroom, but in a place of worship. Only one chapter after humanity’s fall into sin, Genesis 4 introduces the first act of ...

Turkey (International Christian Concern) — The number of anti-Christian hate crimes in Turkey more than doubled from 2021 to 2023, according to an International Christian Concern (ICC) analysis.

Throughout this series, we have explored how climate-related challenges can complicate the lives of Christians already suffering because of persecution. We have examined how changing environmental ...

Christian leaders in Nigeria have renewed claims that Christians face systematic violence, following the abduction of dozens of worshippers during an attack on an Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) ...

Terrorist groups continued their rampage of death and destruction through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2025, increasingly targeting children as weapons for war and abuse. Militia ...