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 »
Background image: In Plateau State, Nigeria, Hassan John talks with the family of Rose Matthew after her husband was targeted and killed by Fulani militants in 2020. photo provided to csi The Christian Solidarity Podcast: “I’ve presided over so many mass burials” Comments by President Donald Trump and the subsequent U.S. designation of Nigeria as… Read more »
Iraqi Christians take part in a CSI-supported bee-keeping workshop. csi Iraq’s Christian population has experienced a catastrophic collapse. While ongoing instability in Iraq has made precise national statistics difficult to procure, available information consistently affirms that the Christian population has plummeted. In a plea for international support this September, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch… Read more »
