سلّطت منظمة التضامن المسيحي الدولي الضوءَ على استمرار احتجاز رئيس بلدية صدد السابق سليمان خليل، وذلك من خلال مداخلة رسمية أمام مجلس حقوق الإنسان في جنيف. لا يزال سليمان خليل محتجزًا لدى الحكومة السورية الانتقالية دون توجيه أي اتهامات إليه، ودون السماح له بالحق في الحصول على محامٍ، وذلك منذ الثامن من فبراير 2025 أي… Read more »
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Afghan Christians under Taliban rule – life or ordeal?
Afghanistan’s Koh-i-Baba mountain area is inhabited mostly by ethnic Hazara people. By Danial – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43262398 Afghanistan’s small Christian community remains almost entirely invisible in international media reporting, despite the global concern that has arisen after the Taliban’s introduction of new laws permitting domestic violence and recognizing forms of enslavement. An… Read more »
Half of Indians live under repressive anti-conversion laws
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly meets at the Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai. Government of Maharashtra, Attribution via Wikimedia Commons More than half of India’s population is on course to live under controversial anti-conversion laws as states continue to expand statutes effectively restricting religious conversion. The latest measure, passed in the western state of Maharashtra, pushes… Read more »
At UN, CSI voices great concern over threat to indigenous peoples of West Papua
A polluted river in West Papua seen from the air, November 2025. csi MEDIA RELEASE Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has expressed great concern over the threat to the indigenous Christian peoples of West Papua posed by Indonesia’s ongoing military operations and development programs. In an oral statement at the Human Rights Council in Geneva… Read more »
Nigeria: Gwoza suffers devastating attack despite presence of U.S. troops
Survivors of the Ngoshe attack fled to neighboring Pulka. screenshot from video Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram attacked Ngoshe village in the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria in early March following coordinated attacks on Konduga, Marte, Jakana, and Mainok, also in Borno State. Dozens of people were killed and… Read more »
Complaint filed against SOCAR in Switzerland for financing ethnic cleansing
The Committee for the Defense of the Fundamental Rights of the Nagorno-Karabakh People, established by the Nagorno-Karabakh Parliament in December 2023, together with the Switzerland-Armenia Association, filed a formal complaint in Switzerland on March 18, 2026, against SOCAR Trading SA. The complaint states that the company has violated international standards on responsible business conduct by… Read more »
CSI defends pastor from Nepal at UN
Joel Veldkamp raises concerns about religious freedom in Nepal at the Human Rights Council. csi MEDIA RELEASE Today at the UN Human Rights Council, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) raised the alarm about Nepal’s 2017 anti-conversion law. In an oral statement during an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues on March 17, CSI… Read more »
At UN, CSI highlights forced displacement of Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh
Karnig Kerkonian delivered the statement on behalf of CSI and three NGOs. csi MEDIA RELEASE Today, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) raised Azerbaijan’s forced displacement of the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh in a general debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. CSI’s oral statement was co-sponsored by three non-governmental organizations: the World… Read more »
At UN, CSI condemns Syria’s continued detention of Suleiman Khalil
CSI made an oral statement about Suleiman Khalil at the UN in Geneva. csi MEDIA RELEASE Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has highlighted the continued detention of former Syrian mayor Suleiman Khalil in an intervention at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The former mayor of the town of Sadad has been held by the Syrian… Read more »
India court orders halt to exhumation of Christian bodies
In central India, a mob assaults Christians after a burial. screenshot from video recorded by a local Christian India’s Supreme Court has ordered an immediate halt to the exhumation of Christian bodies in the central state of Chhattisgarh, following a series of gravedigging incidents that triggered legal action and national concern. Bodies of Christians, mostly… Read more »