In August, CSI responded to a request for emergency assistance following a series of brutal attacks on mainly Christian villages in central Nigeria. Three months on, the victims have been recounting their stories and expressing their gratitude for the help they received. Dozens of people died, hundreds were injured and thousands displaced in attacks by… Read more »
Victor Markus, a young man from Nigeria’s central Plateau State, had his life all planned out. He would get an education and then a good job. But in late October, everything changed when Islamist militants attacked him and left him for dead. CSI is covering Victor’s hospital costs. Victor, aged 20, comes from the village… Read more »
For the past 11 years, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has been spreading terror in northeastern Nigeria, destroying communities and driving people from their homes. Father John Bakeni, CSI’s partner in the area, is at the forefront of efforts to help Christians and moderate Muslims whose lives have been turned upside down. The ongoing… Read more »
There is a country in the Middle East whose people have been in a covenant relationship with the God of the Bible for millennia. They have faced many persecutions in their long history, but none so terrible as in the 20th century, when a powerful country tried to wipe out all of them – the entire… Read more »
A Catholic priest in north-central Nigeria is calling for urgent assistance for his parishioners following two brutal attacks on the community by Islamist militants in the space of two months. Rev. Fr. Uke Gabriel Ter only took charge of the parish of Zaman Dabo in southern Kaduna State in early September, just weeks after the… Read more »
The Christian community of Wereng in Nigeria’s Plateau State is in a state of fear after a renewed attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen left six people dead. On the night of October 5, gunmen invaded the community, killing a local chief and five others and injuring three, according to CSI’s local partner Emancipation Center for… Read more »
In open letter to President Trump, human rights group calls for U.S. to suspend military aid to Azerbaijan and Turkey ZURICH – Christian Solidarity International, a human rights NGO campaigning for religious freedom and human dignity, today condemned the joint Turkish-Azerbaijani attack on Nagorno-Karabakh, a tiny region in the Caucuses inhabited by 150,000 Christian Armenians…. Read more »
Three hundred men and women who were held in slavery in Sudan have returned home to South Sudan in the latest retrieval operation organized by CSI. Project manager Franco Majok oversaw the liberation of slaves that took place on August 15 and 16. The former slaves, who had all endured years of forced labor and… Read more »
In Dhaka, the overcrowded capital of Bangladesh, an estimated 600,000 children were living on the streets, relying on odd jobs to survive, when the coronavirus pandemic struck. For the past two months, CSI has been working with project partner William Samaddar from Engage Bangladesh to provide temporary shelter for some of these homeless children and… Read more »
Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has been forced to take extraordinary security precautions after receiving death threats and being repeatedly interrogated by national security officers. The threats come after Dr. Mailaifa publicly challenged official narratives about the widespread murder and displacement of civilians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. … Read more »