India’s Home Ministry announced new, stricter rules regulating the activities of foreign-funded NGOs where all individuals working for NGOs much pledge, on a notarized paper, that they will not engage in religious conversions or promote sectarian discord. Read more: International Christian Concern
Mustafa Rahimi, an ordinary shopkeeper and unassuming citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was arrested for the second time since June for selling Bibles in his bookstore, an illegal act in Iran. Read more: International Christian Concern
Sudan’s new transitional failed its first test of democracy, as police and government officials denied its people to peacefully assemble and to protest. Instead, they beat them with batons and shot tear gas into the crowds. Read more: International Christian Concern
On August 2, the Lahore High Court returned a Christian girl who had been forcefully converted to Islam to her parents. According to her family, Muskan, age 14, was taken from them after being forcefully converted to Islam by her Muslim employer. Read more: International Christian Concern
According to Bitter Winter magazine, a state-run Three-Self church in a county of Luoyang city in the central province of Henan has replaced the Ten Commandments with President Xi Jinping’s quotes after repeated demands. Read more: International Christian Concern
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is up for reauthorization by Congress, which will need to pass legislation funding the Commission’s mission for the years to come. USCIRF was created by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act and was last reauthorized in 2015. Read more: International Christian Concern
Over the past several years Burkina Faso has seen rising extremism coming south from its porous border with Mali. Although previous attacks have targeted government and western-friendly organizations, they recently began targeting Christian leaders, places of worship and laypeople. Read more: International Christian Concern
In the past month, International Christian Concern has documented multiple cases of Christian activists in Pakistan being targeted for speaking out against the oppression of their community. Read more: International Christian Concern
On Sunday, September 22, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will be in Houston, Texas for an event hosted by the Texas India Forum (TIF). Tens of thousands of individuals are expected to attend the “Howdy Modi” event at the NRG Stadium. Read more: International Christian Concern
St. John Berchmans Inter College, a Jesuit school and hostel located in India’s Jharkhand state, has appealed to the government for help following an attack last week. Read more: International Christian Concern
