Christian Solidarity International Protests the Biden administration’s “All Words, No Action” Policy Yesterday, the UN Security Council failed again to act to halt Azerbaijan’s aggression against the besieged Armenian Christian community of Nagorno Karabakh, at an emergency meeting held to discuss the crisis. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister, Jeyhun Bayramov, was invited to a private reception hosted by U.S…. Read more »
Human rights group urges Biden to initiate air rescue of endangered civilians Today, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) can confirm, based on firsthand reports from partners on the ground, that thousands of Armenian Christians are now amassed at Nagorno Karabakh’s only airport, in the hope of being rescued by an international humanitarian airlift. Others are hiding… Read more »
The latest reports out of Nagorno-Karabakh are reporting that Azerbaijan is bombing residential neighborhoods and not military targets as promised. The village of Yeghtsahogh is completely surrounded by Azerbaijani troops. Civilians, including children, have been killed in the shelling of the region. 7,000 people have been evacuated from their villages and are in need of… Read more »
Today, the dictatorship of Azerbaijan launched a full-scale military attack on Nagorno Karabakh, also known as Artsakh, where 120,000 Armenian Christians have been under siege for nine months. CSI’s President, Dr. John Eibner, warns, “If Azerbaijan’s allies and commercial partners – the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, European Union, Israel, and Switzerland – do not… Read more »
On Tuesday night, September 12, 2023, a CSI team visited the entrance to the Lachin Corridor, the road into Nagorno Karabakh that has been blocked by Azerbaijan for the past nine months causing untold misery to the 120,000 Armenian Christians who live there. The humanitarian situation has become so bad that people are beginning to… Read more »
A court in northern Nigeria has issued an order protecting an 18-year-old convert to Christianity from members of her own family who were threatening to kill her for abandoning Islam. The ruling sends a signal that the fundamental right to change religion must be guaranteed in Nigeria, even in those states that enforce Islamic shari’a… Read more »
On August 16, there was a large mob attack on a the Christian neighborhood in Pakistan, called Jaranwala, after some local Muslims accused Christians of burning a Qur’an. No one was killed, but 21 churches and many houses were burned. 2,500 people had to flee their homes. Two Christian men accused of desecrating the Qur’an… Read more »
Macram Max Gassis, who was the bishop of the Catholic diocese of El Obeid from 1988 to 2013, was a tireless campaigner for the rights of Christians in Muslim-majority Sudan. He was also a member of the Advisory Council of Christian Solidarity International (CSI). Bishop Macram was a fearless opponent of the Islamist revival of… Read more »
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted this week to make Christian Solidarity International (CSI) a non-governmental organization (NGO) with consultative status. Consultative status provides NGOs with access to not only ECOSOC, but also to its many subsidiary bodies, to the various human rights mechanisms of the United Nations, ad-hoc processes on small… Read more »
2022 was a year of global uncer tainty. In more and more countries, democracy, the rule of law, and hu man rights are coming under pressure. Conflicts and wars are creating geo political tensions. Instability is affect ing the global economy. Prices are rising. Anti-Christian, anti-human ide ologies gain momentum and find ex pression through… Read more »
