Swiss MP Stefan Müller-Altermatt speaks at an event with leaders from Nagorno Karabakh at the parliament house on April 30. csi When Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis told Parliament on June 15 that convening a peace forum for the forcefully displaced Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh was “not possible” due to Switzerland’s inability to speak… Read more »
Lord Alton speaks at a hearing on coerced conversions of minority women at the UK parliament on June 16. Photo: Sophie Robinson, Institute for Development Studies. Addressing an event at the UK parliament on June 16, Christian Solidarity International’s director for public advocacy, Joel Veldkamp, shared the story of Neha Faqir, an 18-year-old Pakistani… Read more »
Three Christian women mourn their husbands, who were killed by suspected Fulani militants on June 10, during their burial in Sol Village, Ta-Hoss community, Riyom Local Government Area. csi. At least 20 Christians were killed within a week in a string of attacks attributed to Fulani militants in southern Kaduna and Plateau states, in… Read more »
Arif Salam was violently assaulted because of his faith. csi Salam, 55, earns his livelihood as a bicycle mechanic. Whenever opportunities arise, he openly shares his Christian faith with others. His commitment to spreading the Christian message has made him a respected witness among local believers. But not everyone is happy about Salam’s evangelism…. Read more »
Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis addresses parliament on the Nagorno Karabakh question on 15 June 2026. Source: parlament.ch Last Wednesday, Erich Vontobel, a member of the Swiss parliament, deposited a formal question to Switzerland’s Federal Council. Fifteen months ago, the parliament mandated the Council to organize a peace forum between the Armenians of Nagorno… Read more »
When Nancy, 37, was playfully struck in the abdomen by her son, no one imagined that an affectionate gesture would uncover such a harsh truth. “I felt an unbearable pain,” she recalls, her voice still trembling. Her husband rushed her to the hospital. An MRI showed a suspicious pelvic mass, and doctors called in a… Read more »
Bagrat Galstanyan. X YEREVAN – On June 4, 2026, Armenia’s Criminal Court of Appeals replaced the pretrial detention of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan with house arrest, following nearly one year of incarceration for the country’s most outspoken clergyman. Galstanyan is the leader of the “Holy Struggle” movement, born from protests in 2024 in the northeastern province… Read more »
Map showing location of Antagarh, Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. Google Maps Indigenous Christian communities in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh are facing denial of water, employment, and forest access in what local advocacy groups say is an organized campaign to force “reconversion” to Hinduism. It comes amid a push by New Delhi to strip… Read more »
Screenshot/Pesta Babi: Kolonialisme Di Zaman Kita The West Papua film’s viral reach is a direct result of official attempts to stop it, drawing renewed international attention to conditions in a region that Indonesia has largely closed to independent observers, foreign journalists and international human rights bodies. The documentary “Pesta Babi: Kolonialisme Di Zaman Kita,”… Read more »
Yaqub’s family waited two years for justice. csi The verdict is a rare outcome for a religious minority family in a country where Christians and other non-Muslim communities routinely face obstacles in obtaining legal redress, particularly when the perpetrators belong to the Muslim majority. Additional Sessions Judge Syed Shazad Muzaffar Hamdani of Lahore delivered… Read more »
