On September 29, Artak Beglaryan spoke at CSI’s side event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. l to r: Joel Veldkamp, CSI; Sarkis Shahinian; Artak Beglaryan; Erich Vontobel. csi The Christian Solidarity Podcast: After so much suffering, do the people of Nagorno Karabakh want to return home? After the ethnic cleansing of… Read more »
Speakers at the launch of the Swiss Peace Initiative in Berlin, left to right: Jonathan Spangenberg, Erich Vontobel, John Eibner, Peter Fuchs. csi Christian Solidarity International (CSI) and the Central Council of Armenians in Germany hosted an event on October 8, 2025, at the Evangelical Academy in Berlin to present the Swiss Peace Initiative… Read more »
Father Tony al-Boutros describes the suffering and hope of the people of Suwayda: screenshot SAT-7 TV Between July 14 and 18, Syria’s Islamist-controlled government sent troops to occupy Suwayda province, a mountainous region with a majority Druze population. Upon entering populated areas, government troops carried out numerous atrocities. The violence began on July 13,… Read more »
CSI’s Abi McDougal presenting her statement at the Human Rights Council. screenshot: un web tv MEDIA RELEASE “It is still not too late to undo the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno Karabakh,” Christian Solidarity International’s UN representative Abi McDougal told the Human Rights Council in a statement on the floor on Thursday. The statement came during… Read more »
Swiss parliamentarian Erich Vontobel and former Nagorno Karabakh human rights ombudsman outside the UN in Geneva. csi September 19, 2025 marked two years since Azerbaijani troops invaded the Armenian Christian region of Nagorno Karabakh forcibly displacing its 120,000-strong population. In a statement timed to coincide with the anniversary, CSI International President John Eibner referred… Read more »
Panelists at the UN side event, l to r: Abi McDougal, CSI; Nicolas Walder; Artak Beglaryan; Erich Vontobel. csi MEDIA RELEASE The Swiss Peace Initiative for Nagorno Karabakh offers a credible framework for a sustainable peace in the strategically crucial South Caucasus region, a side event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva has… Read more »
Brother Rachid is a Moroccan convert to Christianity. photo provided Guest commentary by Brother Rachid As someone who was born Muslim in Morocco and found Christ as an adult, I write today with a heavy heart about the persecution of my brothers and sisters across North Africa. The land that gave the world Augustine,… Read more »
Abi McDougal delivers an oral statement on indigenous rights in West Papua to the UN Human Rights Council. un web tv Video of CSI's oral statement MEDIA RELEASE Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has called on the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to consider the threats facing the traditional economies of the people… Read more »
A woman awaits evacuation from Stepanakert in September 2023 following Azerbaijan’s invasion of Nagorno Karabakh. csi/Siranush Sargsyan MEDIA RELEASE Two years after the forced displacement of the entire Armenian Christian population of Nagorno Karabakh, two members of the Swiss National Council – Erich Vontobel (EDU, Zurich) and Nicolas Walder (The Greens, Geneva) – will appear… Read more »
Paul and Ruth Musa are in Boko Haram captivity. Screenshot from video Paul Musa, 59, serving with the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Gamboru Ngala, Borno State, and his wife Ruth, 50, were kidnapped by Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram on March 23, 2023. At the time of their kidnapping, Paul and… Read more »
