International Christian Concern

Welcome again to The Voice of the Martyrs Radio.

My name is Todd Nettleton, and we are in our studio today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with two guests from International Christian Concern.

Sean Wright is the president of ICC.

Nick Baker is the director of Impact, and Nick, I'm going to have you tell what that is exactly.

And so I've been working with ICC since then.

We're talking this week on Voice of the Martyrs Radio with Sean Wright.

He is the president of International Christian Concern, and Nick Baker, he is ICC's director of Impact.

Uh, I want to ask you a question.

After the suspicious election of Lee Myung as South Korea's new president on June 3rd, 2025, in which there was a drastic shortage of paper ballots, which some have claimed mounts to election fraud, there has been ample evidence of growing hostility to Christianity.

For example, South Korean authorities detained six Americans on June 27th, 2025, after they attempted to send 1,600 plastic bottles containing miniature Bibles into North Korea by sea, reported International Christian Concern.

The Americans were investigated because they allegedly violated the law on disaster management when they reportedly threw the bottles, which also included USB sticks, money, and rice, into the sea, hoping North Koreans would eventually find them washed up on their shore.

Then, South Korean Pastor Son Hyun Bo of Saguro Church in Busan was arrested on September 8th, 2025 for interviewing a Christian school superintendent candidate, Jeong Seon Yun, during a church service and uploading a video of the conversation to social media.

In addition, gunfire and attacks were reported across the region during the week leading up to the pastor's death.

International Christian Concern documents that at least 27 Christians were killed in the attacks.

The government responded by imposing a dusk to dawn curfew in parts of the state until security agencies could bring stability.

Nigeria is ranked seventh on the Open Doors World Watch List of the most dangerous countries to be a Christian.

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Pastor Anyan Cui was at his home when Chinese communist officials arrested him at 10.30 a.m. on September 29th, for an investigation on suspicion of, quote, organizing illegal religious activities, end quote, reports International Christian Concern.

Yankui is the pastor of Taiyan Zunshang Reformed Church, an unregistered Protestant church, and has a history of arrests for the same allegation of organizing illegal religious activities.

In 2020, authorities detained him for 15 days and fined him.

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Armed Muslims killed a pastor and a believer on their way to worship God on Sunday morning in Plateau State, Nigeria, reports International Christian Concern.

And the pastor's son is in critical condition.

This was not an isolated attack.

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In Sudan, Africa, a 97% Muslim country, the battle for the soul of the church is not only fought with guns, it's also fought with court papers, administrative orders, and calculated division, reports International Christian Concern.

For years, successive authorities in Khartoum, the capital, have pressured church leaders to comply and then moved to seize control of church properties.

One church now at the center of this struggle is the Sudanese Church of Christ, Marzuk Branch, established in 1982.

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The Myanmar military junta has killed a third pastor, reports International Christian Concern.

Pastor Chuang was returning to Lanzang after conducting religious activities in a nearby village.

Bullets reportedly struck his chest, abdomen, and thigh.

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As the elders of the 500-member Early Rain Covenant Church met quietly on September 10th at a local tea house to discuss church matters, Chinese communist authorities were already on to them, reports International Christian Concern.

Around 3 p.m., police entered the tea house, interrupted the meeting, and arrested 11 of the elders.

Early rain has a nearly 10-year history of being harassed, monitored, and pressured by the Chinese Communist Party.

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At around midnight on September 6th, Amina and Shamila, two newly converted Christian sisters, were inside their home in Kasis District in the country of Uganda, Africa, when their house was set on fire, reports International Christian Concern.

The arsonist was their Muslim father, Muhammad.

He had doused the house with gas, then set it alight while the girls slept inside.