Survivors of the Ngoshe attack fled to neighboring Pulka. screenshot from video Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram attacked Ngoshe village in the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria in early March following coordinated attacks on Konduga, Marte, Jakana, and Mainok, also in Borno State. Dozens of people were killed and… Read more »
The Committee for the Defense of the Fundamental Rights of the Nagorno-Karabakh People, established by the Nagorno-Karabakh Parliament in December 2023, together with the Switzerland-Armenia Association, filed a formal complaint in Switzerland on March 18, 2026, against SOCAR Trading SA. The complaint states that the company has violated international standards on responsible business conduct by… Read more »
Joel Veldkamp raises concerns about religious freedom in Nepal at the Human Rights Council. csi MEDIA RELEASE Today at the UN Human Rights Council, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) raised the alarm about Nepal’s 2017 anti-conversion law. In an oral statement during an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues on March 17, CSI… Read more »
Karnig Kerkonian delivered the statement on behalf of CSI and three NGOs. csi MEDIA RELEASE Today, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) raised Azerbaijan’s forced displacement of the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh in a general debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. CSI’s oral statement was co-sponsored by three non-governmental organizations: the World… Read more »
CSI made an oral statement about Suleiman Khalil at the UN in Geneva. csi MEDIA RELEASE Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has highlighted the continued detention of former Syrian mayor Suleiman Khalil in an intervention at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The former mayor of the town of Sadad has been held by the Syrian… Read more »
In central India, a mob assaults Christians after a burial. screenshot from video recorded by a local Christian India’s Supreme Court has ordered an immediate halt to the exhumation of Christian bodies in the central state of Chhattisgarh, following a series of gravedigging incidents that triggered legal action and national concern. Bodies of Christians, mostly… Read more »
Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan was ordered released “immediately” from pre-trial detention by an Appeals Court Judge on March 5, making him the third senior clergy member of the Armenian Apostolic Church to have his detention eased in the past month. Following his release from the National Security Service after three months of pre-trial detention, he told… Read more »
Ain Ebel, a Christian village in South Lebanon, November 2024. csi On February 28, Israel and the United States attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran, killing the country’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei. Iranian forces have retaliated by attacking U.S. allies across the region. On March 2, Iran’s ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, attacked Israel,… Read more »
The current surge of warfare ravaging the Middle East brings fresh threats to the existence of the region’s Christian communities and compounds the suffering of human beings regardless of their religious identity. It has already expanded beyond Iran to claim the lives of civilians in Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Yemen, the Gulf States… Read more »
The National Security Service building in Yerevan, Armenia, where Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is being held. csi At the start of February a delegation from Christian Solidarity International (CSI) undertook a fact-finding mission to Yerevan related to the Armenian government’s crackdown on the Armenian Apostolic Church. It came as religious freedom experts and NGOs gathered… Read more »
