(International Christian Concern) – According to The Arunchal Times, the pastor of Tawang Revival Church, Pastor Joseph Singhi, was arrested by police in Tawang for allegedly constructing an illegal church. Pastor Singhi was later released on bail, but the controversy over the church continues. According to the Christian community of Tawang, located in India’s Arunchal […]

(International Christian Concern) – On Sept. 8, Mehwish Hidayat, a 22-year-old Christian, was reunited with her family after spending three months in captivity. In June, Khurram Shehzad, a Muslim, abducted Hidayat while she traveled to her job at a garment factory in Lahore, Pakistan. According to Hidayat, Shehzad and several other armed men abducted her […]

(International Christian Concern) – On September 8, Asif Pervaiz was sentenced to death by a trial court in Lahore, Pakistan for allegedly committing blasphemy. The legal team defending Pervaiz filed an appeal with the Lahore High Court on September 14 seeking to overturn the death sentence. Pervaiz, a 37-year-old Pakistani Christian, was convicted of committing […]

(International Christian Concern) – Police in Pakistan have announced the arrest of two men, Salman Khan and Suleman Khan, in Peshawar in connection with the killing a Christian in June. According to statements from the victim, he was shot because he was the only Christian living in what his assailants claimed was a Muslim neighborhood. […]

(International Christian Concern) – Christians in Uttar Pradesh, a state located in northern India, are no strangers to persecution. Year after year, Uttar Pradesh is identified as the state where most Christian persecution incidents are recorded in India. According to the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI), 86 of the 366 violent attacks on Indian Christians […]

(International Christian Concern) – A house church preacher and his wife in China’s southern Fujian province received a subpoena on September 3. They were charged with “custody disputes” by the local government. According to China Aid, preacher You Guanda from Dianqian Church in Xiamen city was accused by the government of Hongdunzhen, Shaowu city for […]

(International Christian Concern) – According to local report, three young Christians from Talbora village, located in India’s Odisha state, were banished from their home village because they refused to renounce their Christian faith and convert to Hinduism. Surander, age 22, Subash, age 20, and Jamuna, age 19, became Christians in 2017 and were baptized in […]

Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – In early August, a Christian-owned barbershop in Lahore, Pakistan was ransacked and forced to close because it publicly displayed Christian symbols and played Christian music. According to the Christian owners, local police have sided with the people who ransacked the barbershop, leaving them without a livelihood. “We were running the […]

(International Christian Concern) – On Aug. 11, a group of radical Hindu nationalists brutally attacked four Christian women who had gathered for prayer in Sarurpur village, located on the outskirts of Faridabad, Harayana. As a result of the attack, the four women have been hospitalized. One of the four women, named Sangeeta, is reportedly fighting […]

(International Christian Concern) – On Aug. 11, a Christian man in China’s Yunnan province received a notice of administrative punishment from the local Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau (ERAB), accusing him of hosting illegal religious education training online. According to Chinese Christian Fellowship of Righteousness, brother Zhang Wenli also received a hefty fine of 20,000 […]