May 24, 2024 | News & Stories
The mosque’s loudspeakers began wailing early in the morning on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Christians in the Jaranwala colony immediately felt a chill of fear, knowing something was about to happen. In Pakistan, anything was possible. Christians are an unprotected...
May 21, 2024 | News & Stories
Imagine going through life as a second-class citizen, denied many basic rights and with no opportunity to ever better your situation. That is where many Pakistani Christians find themselves in daily. They are given the worst jobs, unable to access good education and...
May 16, 2024 | News & Stories
Yemenis have been living in a war zone since 2015, with the country’s rule being divided between the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG), backed by Saudi Arabia, and Iran-affiliated Houthis. Each year, it seems the conditions grow worse. The humanitarian...
May 15, 2024 | News & Stories
When a missile destroyed a house just 300 meters from her home, Samah immediately took flight with her three sons and two daughters. They fled at night, carrying what they could in cloth bundles. When they finally stopped running, they tied the clothes to a tree to...
May 6, 2024 | News & Stories
Life for Afghan refugees in Pakistan is not easy, but it is about to get even harder. ICR has been caring for Afghan refugees in Pakistan since the 2021 Taliban take-over in Afghanistan. Many of those who fled left because they knew that as converts to Christianity,...
May 3, 2024 | News & Stories
Some people say Cuba is like a sinking ship. Yet, as many on the island try to flee this desperate situation, the church is experiencing rapid growth. Many people agree that the situation in Cuba is the worst it has ever been. Up to half a million Cubans left the...
May 3, 2024 | News & Stories
More people fled Cuba in 2022 than ever before in the country’s 64-year history as a communist regime. According to U.S. government data, 250,000 Cubans, or two percent of the country’s population, migrated to the United States in 2022. After decades of heavy-handed...
May 2, 2024 | News & Stories
Manipur is a small state in the far eastern part of India. It is one of a handful of Indian states separated from the rest of the subcontinent by the countries of Bangladesh and Nepal. Manipur is home to 3.3 million people. More than half of the state’s...
Apr 30, 2024 | News & Stories
Pastor T was on the campus of the Kuki Christian Church and Seminary on the day that everything changed for him in Manipur, India. Around 2:45 in the afternoon on May 3, 2023, a raging mob of more than 500 men approached the campus. Many wore the black shirts of the...
Apr 30, 2024 | News & Stories
Islamic extremists, including Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa Province, want to Islamize northeastern Nigeria. For decades, extremist groups have attacked Christians with impunity. Often, whole villages are wiped out and entire communities are displaced....
Apr 30, 2024 | News & Stories
Philip Amasham wept as he told his story. During the week, the 37-year-old civil servant lived in Makurdi, the capital of Benue state in northern Nigeria for work. On weekends, he, his wife and five children traveled back to their home village to work on their farm...
Mar 22, 2024 | News & Stories
Local residents object to use of house for worship. By Our Indonesia Correspondent SURABAYA, Indonesia – Muslim residents objecting to house-church worship in western Indonesia on Sunday (March 17) compelled the pastor to discontinue using her home for services,...