Syrian government forces enter the Ashrafiya neighborhood of Aleppo after days of fighting with Kurdish forces – January 8, 2026. (Photo: Levant 24). Beginning on January 4, heaving fighting erupted in Aleppo city between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. The fighting has forced tens of thousands of Syrians to flee their… Read more »
Raymond Koh, a Christian pastor, led humanitarian efforts serving poor and marginalized communities in Malaysia prior to his abduction. facebook A Malaysian court has ruled that state police were responsible for the 2017 enforced disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh, a Christian leader abducted in broad daylight in an incident captured on CCTV. Nearly eight… Read more »
Speakers at the launch of the Swiss Peace Initiative in Bern in May, left to right: Erich Vontobel, Sarkis Shahinian, Vartan Oskanian, Joel Veldkamp. csi Nigeria: Escalating massacres of Christians draw international attention In November, U.S. President Trump put Nigeria back on the list of countries of particular concern for religious freedom (it had been… Read more »
Bagrat Galstanyan is Armenia’s most outspoken cleric. @SrbazanBagrat/X On June 25 this year, Armenian authorities arrested Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, an outspoken critic of the prime minister, along with 12 of his associates and employees of his diocese. He was the first of several high-ranking clergy to be imprisoned by the Armenian government in 2025…. Read more »
Natalie Khalil speaks out about the imprisonment of her father Suleiman Khalil (pictured) in Syria. sami alkayial on youtube In an interview conducted in Arabic by Syrian author Sami Alkayial, Natalie Khalil, 21, spoke for the first time to a Syrian audience about her father Suleiman’s detention by Syria’s new rulers and what it… Read more »
Anwar Kenneth still fears for his life, despite no longer being on death row. csi Pakistani Christian Anwar Kenneth, who was falsely charged with blasphemy and sentenced to death in 2001, has sent an audio message to Christian Solidarity International (CSI) to mark the first Christmas following his release from jail in October. In… Read more »
Families flee the Shaykh Maqsoud neighborhood of Damascus after the bombardments on December 22. Source: Free Syrian News Network. On Monday, December 22, 2025, armed clashes erupted in Aleppo between the Syrian government army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with intense fighting reported between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Exchanges of artillery… Read more »
Christians gather to pray for peace in Bangladesh in August 2024. provided to csi Analysis by Anugrah Kumar Bangladesh will hold general elections in February 2026, the first national vote since Sheikh Hasina’s government was ousted in a student-led uprising that promised to establish a “new” Bangladesh. However, as the Muslim-majority country prepares to vote,… Read more »
A Christian victim of a Fulani attack in Plateau State. csi Since U.S. President Donald Trump posted about “the killing of Christians” on November 1, global media attention has turned toward Nigeria. Religious freedom advocates know the country as the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian. Critics argue the violence has… Read more »
In central India, a local Christian recorded a mob assaulting Christians after a burial. screenshot from video The violence began after a local mob, allegedly provoked by Hindu nationalists, claimed that a Christian burial insulted their deity and violated tribal land rights. The buried man was the father of Rajman Salam, the elected village… Read more »
