Speaking at a panel at the European Parliament on July 14, 2026, CSI’s Joel Veldkamp argued that Azerbaijan is holding Armenians hostage as part of its project to destroy the people of Artsakh – a project with grave security implications for all of Europe.
As Armenian hostages in Baku mark more than 1,000 days in captivity, Christian Solidarity International’s Director for Public Advocacy tells a European Parliament panel that Europe’s silence is enabling Turkish dominance over the South Caucasus and subjugation of Armenia.
Trafficked into a Lahore factory after being coerced into converting to Islam, 24-year-old Sabir Masih is finally reunited with his widowed mother and his Christian faith.
Alawites, Druzes, Shi’ites and Christians in Syria are at heightened risk of being abducted or killed extrajudicially. This monthly update highlights known or suspected attacks against religious minorities in Syria, as an indicator of the ongoing threats to religious minorities in the country.
The interior of the Hagia Sophia Church in the central Syrian town of Suqaylabiyah, consecrated in 2022, but forced shut under pressure from Sunni Islamist militants who now dominate the country’s security forces. Photo courtesy of resident who wishes to remain anonymous. When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul re-converted… Read more »
Plateau community members carrying the coffins of Christians killed in a recent Fulani militant attack. csi by Jude Dangwam in Jos, Plateau State These findings challenge the Nigerian government’s longstanding characterization of the violence as merely a “farmer-herder conflict” and support the argument that Christian communities have been disproportionately targeted. The figures come from the… Read more »
The United Nations building in Geneva. csi. MEDIA RELEASE GENEVA – Today at the United Nations, Christian Solidarity International raised the issue of Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of 150,000 Armenian Christians from their homeland in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh. CSI’s intervention was delivered by Joel Veldkamp, CSI’s director for public advocacy, during an interactive dialogue with the Special… Read more »
ThankGod holds her baby girl, Na’anbammun. csi Longdi ThankGod, a 22-year-old Christian woman, was in labor at a rural clinic in Nigeria’s Middle Belt when armed Fulani militia men stormed the building shortly after midnight. She escaped into the darkness while still enduring contractions, pursued by one of the attackers, as others killed her… Read more »
On June 18, Christian Solidarity International participated in a meeting of the European Parliament’s Intergroup for Christians in the Middle East. The meeting was focused on the situation for Christians in Iraq. CSI’s director for public advocacy, Joel Veldkamp, briefed members of the European Parliament, alongside Pascale Warda, the former Iraqi minister for refugees and… Read more »
Suleiman Khalil, 52, the former mayor of the Christian town of Sadad in Syria, has been detained since February 8, 2026. MEDIA RELEASE On Friday, a coalition of leading religious freedom advocates sent an open letter to Ambassador Tom Barrack, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Syria, asking him to secure the release of… Read more »
