Before CSI cleared the family’s debts, Ashraf Masih was one of millions who worked in Pakistan’s brick kilns. csi In Pakistan’s roughly 20,000 brick kilns, millions of people work as modern slaves. Families borrow money in crisis – such as for medical emergencies – and find themselves trapped forever, working to repay debts while… Read more »
Obstacles to constructing churches are one way in which Christians face discrimination in Egypt. csi According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 2025 annual report, Egyptian authorities continue to use blasphemy laws against minorities and restrict their religious freedom. One of the biggest challenges for Christians is getting permission to build… Read more »
Image background: CSI continues to provide aid to displaced Nigerians in Maiduguri, where this photo was taken in 2015. csi The Christian Solidarity Podcast: Understanding the persecution of Christians in Nigeria Nigeria is the deadliest country in the world to be a Christian. But about half of Nigerians identify as Christian, and the persecution is… Read more »
Millions of people have been displaced by the conflict in Myanmar, living in refugee camps. csi Myanmar’s military government is making desperate attempts to seek international legitimacy while committing crimes against humanity that include mass killings, airstrikes on schools and places of worship, arbitrary arrests, torture and deliberate blocking of humanitarian aid. The generals… Read more »
Members of the GYI Yasmin Church worshiping outside of Indonesia’s presidential palace in 2010. On June 27, a mob stormed a house in West Java where a group of Christian young people had gathered for a religious retreat. Rumors had spread that the house, located in the village of Tangkil in Sukabumi regency, was… Read more »
Comfort Mark was involved in community evangelization programs. csi Comfort Mark, a Christian health worker in northern Nigeria, freed young Christian girls who had been abducted to marry Muslim men. Instead of her work being recognized by the local government when she brought them home, she was falsely accused of human trafficking and jailed…. Read more »
A Nigerian pastor kidnapped by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) militant group,Polycarp Zongo, has regained his freedom after almost eight months in captivity, members ofhis church have announced. ISWAP, which terrorizes northeastern Nigeria, is notorious for abducting and killing Christiansand members of the Christian clergy. Rev Zongo, a pastor with Church of Christ in Nations… Read more »
Today, over 90 senior leadership figures worldwide called on U.S. President Joe Biden to lift those economic sanctions that kill, displace, impoverish and otherwise harm the civilian population of Syria, as called for by the UN Special Rapporteur for Unilateral Coercive Measures, Prof. Alena Douhan. Sign the petition to end the suffering This is collective… Read more »
At the start of 2021, Nigeria is looking back on another year of religious conflict that cost an estimated 2,400 Christians their life. In the last two weeks of the year alone, around 200 Christians died at the hands of Islamists. The security forces had warned of likely violence over Christmas and sadly, they were… Read more »
Arzoo, a 13-year-old Christian girl, was abducted and forcibly married by a Muslim man over 30 years her senior. Thankfully, following a court ruling, she is now safe in a government-run shelter for women. CSI’s partner in Pakistan is engaged in a legal battle to protect the rights of underage girls like Arzoo and ensure… Read more »
