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Press Releases

China to Pass Controversial National Security Law for Hong Kong

May 23, 2020:

ICC has learned that the National People’s Congress in China will propose new legislation on national security to tighten its grip on the ruling of Hong Kong.

May 21, 2020:

ICC has learned that on May 20, sectarian tensions surged in the Egyptian village of Kom Farag when the city council decided to demolish a church and mosque located next to each other.

May 19, 2020:

ICC has learned that Pastor Bryan Nerren, an American pastor detained in India since October 2019, is now free to return home to his family in the United States.

May 14, 2020:

ICC has learned that Fulani militants conducted a major attack, beginning late in the evening on May 11, on the community of Gonan Rogo in Nigeria, as well as four other villages.

May 11, 2020:

International Christian Concern has learned that Congressman Doug Lamborn has delivered a letter to the Algerian government, calling attention to the increasing persecution of Christians in Algeria.

May 04, 2020:

International Christian Concern has learned that on May 3, local authorities violently raided a house church in China’s Xiamen city in Fujian province during Sunday worship.

April 29, 2020:

04/29/20 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the United States Commission on International […]

April 28, 2020:

ICC has learned that the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom added Algeria to its 2020 annual report on the world’s worst religious freedom violators.

April 22, 2020:

ICC has learned that on April 21, 2020, Christian human rights activist Mary Fatima Mohammadi received a suspended prison sentence of three months by the Iranian government.

April 15, 2020:

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on April 12, Easter Sunday, a state-sanctioned church in China’s Qinghai province was demolished.