For months, Christian Solidarity International has been urging the United Nations to fulfill its mandate to prevent genocide in Nigeria. In the past month, another 150 Christians have been killed in separate attacks across the Benue State, according to youth leader Daniel Adakole. Adakole says the “piecemeal” attacks occurring on an almost daily basis have displaced… Read more »
In Pakistan, exceptionally heavy monsoon rains are causing devastation and untold suffering among the population. Hundreds of thousands of women, men and children have lost everything. CSI is providing emergency aid. It is urgent. Due to the severe drought, the monsoon was eagerly awaited, but in Pakistan this year it brought death and destruction. In… Read more »
On Friday, the Catholic Diocese of Ondo state in Nigeria laid to rest the bodies of more than 40 churchgoers who were murdered on Pentecost Sunday. Today, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) is calling on British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to use the upcoming ministerial for freedom of religion or belief in London to designate Nigeria… Read more »
Terrorists suspected by locals to be Fulani militiamen attacked a church in Ondo State, southwestern Nigeria, on 5 June, Pentecost Sunday, killing dozens of worshippers and injuring several others, local media report. The attack took place at St Francis Catholic Church in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State during a Pentecost Sunday worship service…. Read more »
Human rights organization warns against sacrificing Christians in “new scramble for Africa” Today, Dr. John Eibner, the president of Christian Solidarity International, wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken about last week’s lynching of Deborah Samuel Yakubu (pictured above), a 25-year-old Christian student, by a mob of Muslim supremacists in Sokoto, Nigeria. Deborah, Eibner… Read more »
Which were the main reasons that motivated you to travel to Western Ukraine (and Hungary)? We travelled to Mukatschewo in Trans-Carpathian Ukraine to see first-hand something of the humanitarian need and other conditions in the war torn country. We also wanted to how the CSI-supported aid operations are conducted. Mukatschewo is, at the moment, one… Read more »
The current Russian invasion of Ukraine is among the many destabilizing and destructive military interventions and other forms of warfare that are currently conducted overtly and covertly throughout the world without the approval of the UN Security Council. The growing humanitarian crisis arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine joins the man-made, war-related humanitarian catastrophes… Read more »
The current Russian invasion of Ukraine is among the many destabilizing and destructive military interventions and other forms of warfare that are currently conducted overtly and covertly throughout the world without the approval of the UN Security Council. The growing humanitarian crisis arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine joins the man-made, war-related humanitarian catastrophes… Read more »
Luka Binniyat, a Nigerian Christian journalist and human rights activist who was imprisoned for reporting on massacres of Christians in his native Kaduna State, is free at last. Binniyat had been held for 91 days in appalling conditions, and his family had serious concerns about his health. Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has been campaigning for the journalist’s… Read more »
Clutching her baby against her breast, panic-stricken Akon Nguet gathered her other children and rushed out of their hut at dawn to hide in the bush. Within minutes, her home was ablaze. Arab Islamist militiamen on horseback and three-wheel motorbikes had launched an attack against her predominately Christian Black African village in South Sudan. On… Read more »
