A suicide bomber killed nearly 30 people at worship at Mar Elias Orthodox Church in Damascus on June 22, 2025. Photo: Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch. The devastating suicide bombing at Damascus’s Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church on June 22, 2025, which claimed nearly 30 innocent lives during Sunday Divine Liturgy, has shattered any… Read more »
Professor Fabrice Balanche (left) and Professor Joshua Landis (right) will speak about the threat to religious minorities in the “new Syria.” The event will be held in Room XXV of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, at 10 am CEDT. It will be livestreamed here. The recording of the event will be available to… Read more »
CSI made a statement on Syria at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. file photo: csi The day after a suicide bomber massacred 27 Christians at worship in Damascus, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) made a statement at the UN Human Rights Council warning of the threat of genocide to religious minorities in Syria…. Read more »
The aftermath of the suicide attack on St. Elias church in Damascus. Yesterday, June 22, in the heavily-Christian neighborhood of Duweila, just a short walk from the Old City of Damascus, explosions ripped through St. Elias Orthodox Church, where worshipers had gathered for evening mass. The attacks left nearly 30 Christians dead and around… Read more »
Speaking to CSI in early 2024 you said that the vast majority of Syrians were living below the poverty line. How is the situation now? There are even more people living below the poverty line now. We have over a million new unemployed who have no income: members of the army and police units that… Read more »
When dictator Bashar al-Assad was thrown out of power in December 2024, it ended over 50 years of his family controlling Syria. Now a new temporary government is running Syria, led by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and dominated by a jihadist organization called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) . For the Alawite people, who are a… Read more »
U.S. President Donald Trump with new Syrian President – and former jihadist leader – Ahmad al-Sharaa. Riyadh, 14 May 2025. (Karoline Leavitt on X) Guest Commentary by Charles Glass And you know something’s happeningBut you don’t know what it isDo you, Mister Jones? Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man,” 1965 When the… Read more »
These women and their children are among the 120,000 Armenians displaced from their homes in Nagorno Karabakh. csi The catalyst was a trip to Armenia in September 2024 and a moving encounter with refugees from Nagorno Karabakh – which Azerbaijan had invaded one year previously, expelling its 120,000-strong Armenian Christian population. “They asked me,… Read more »
Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications, told CBN News Trump’s pledge is welcomed by Christian Solidarity International. He also explained the sweeping impact the longstanding sanctions have had on the Syrian people. “The impact of the sanctions has been really devastating,” he said. “The U.S. and its allies imposed these sanctions on Syria in 2011… Read more »
In Homs, Syrians celebrated in the streets with flags and fireworks when President Trump announced an end to U.S. sanctions on Syria on May 13, 2025. X post Statement on the end of U.S. sanctions on Syria by Dr. John Eibner, CSI’s International President Christian Solidarity International (CSI) welcomes President Trump’s long-overdue decision to lift… Read more »
