The latest reports out of Nagorno-Karabakh are reporting that Azerbaijan is bombing residential neighborhoods and not military targets as promised. The village of Yeghtsahogh is completely surrounded by Azerbaijani troops. Civilians, including children, have been killed in the shelling of the region. 7,000 people have been evacuated from their villages and are in need of… Read more »
Today, the dictatorship of Azerbaijan launched a full-scale military attack on Nagorno Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, where 120,000 Armenian Christians have been under siege for nine months. CSI’s President, Dr. John Eibner, warns, “If Azerbaijan’s allies and commercial partners – the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, European Union, Israel, and Switzerland – do not… Read more »
On Tuesday night, September 12, 2023, a CSI team visited the entrance to the Lachin Corridor, the road into Nagorno Karabakh that has been blocked by Azerbaijan for the past nine months causing untold misery to the 120,000 Armenian Christians who live there. The humanitarian situation has become so bad that people are beginning to… Read more »
A court in northern Nigeria has issued an order protecting an 18-year-old convert to Christianity from members of her own family who were threatening to kill her for abandoning Islam. The ruling sends a signal that the fundamental right to change religion must be guaranteed in Nigeria, even in those states that enforce Islamic shari’a… Read more »
On August 16, there was a large mob attack on a the Christian neighborhood in Pakistan, called Jaranwala, after some local Muslims accused Christians of burning a Qur’an. No one was killed, but 21 churches and many houses were burned. 2,500 people had to flee their homes. Two Christian men accused of desecrating the Qur’an… Read more »
Macram Max Gassis, who was the bishop of the Catholic diocese of El Obeid from 1988 to 2013, was a tireless campaigner for the rights of Christians in Muslim-majority Sudan. He was also a member of the Advisory Council of Christian Solidarity International (CSI). Bishop Macram was a fearless opponent of the Islamist revival of… Read more »
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted this week to make Christian Solidarity International (CSI) a non-governmental organization (NGO) with consultative status. Consultative status provides NGOs with access to not only ECOSOC, but also to its many subsidiary bodies, to the various human rights mechanisms of the United Nations, ad-hoc processes on small… Read more »
2022 was a year of global uncer tainty. In more and more countries, democracy, the rule of law, and hu man rights are coming under pressure. Conflicts and wars are creating geo political tensions. Instability is affect ing the global economy. Prices are rising. Anti-Christian, anti-human ide ologies gain momentum and find ex pression through… Read more »
Thousands of people, both Christian and Muslim, have been terrorized by Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Sarfraz A., 40, a Muslim, was arrested after being accused of blasphemy by a local cleric. For weeks after his arrest, his family did not know what had happened to him. Sarfraz spent almost a year and a half in jail…. Read more »
The Nuba Christians in the state of South Kordofan in the south of Sudan are under attack from the Islamist-dominatedgovernment in Khartoum. They also have to contend with food shortages caused by flooding. CSI project manager Franco Majok visited the area in February and spoke with members of the community. Mary Albasha Koko has experienced… Read more »
