For generations, Alawite communities have lived peacefully along Syria’s Mediterranean coast. csi This article is based on interviews conducted by CSI during a visit to Syria in late June 2025. During a visit to Syria in late June, CSI spoke with Salma, a schoolteacher from Tartous who works with one of CSI’s after-school projects… Read more »
S. Bibi lives with her husband, who is fighting cancer, and their children in Pakistan. csi S. Bibi, a 38-year-old Christian woman from a small town in Pakistan’s Punjab province, is fighting a legal battle with the support of CSI after being deceived into legally converting to Islam and forcibly married by a Muslim man… Read more »
Father Alphonsus, 41, seen here greeting a beneficiary during an aid distribution in December, has been released 51 days after his captured by the jihadist group Boko Haram. csi Media Release Christian Solidarity International (CSI) welcomes the news that Father Daniel Alphonsus Afina, one of its project partners in Nigeria, has been released from captivity… Read more »
Erich Vontobel (center) stands in front of the U.S. Capitol with the delegation for the Swiss Peace Initiative. csi Interview with Swiss National Councillor Erich Vontobel Mr. Vontobel, how did you become involved with Nagorno Karabakh? At the end of January 2024, I was assigned two motions in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National… Read more »
Syrian security forces in Mazara’a in Suwayda province – July 14, 2025. @sayed_ridha, x. Syrian government forces have once again launched an attack on religious minority populations – this time against the Druze, a religious group which makes up about 3% of Syria’s population, and who are considered heretics by jihadist groups. Between July 14… Read more »
Siranush Sahakyan is the director of the International and Comparative Law Center in Yerevan. photo from i.c. law – armenia Guest commentary by Siranush Sahakyan In June 2025, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan escalated public attacks against the Armenian Apostolic Church by referring to churches as “closets cluttered with junk,” publicly insulting clergy, and accusing the… Read more »
Etchmiadzin, the Mother See of the Armenian Apostolic Church, 2023. photo: csi Media Release Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has joined with other religious freedom advocates in calling on the Armenian government to end its persecution of the Armenian church. In a statement, the organizations and individuals express “grave concerns over the intensifying campaign by the… Read more »
Sharia law applies in 12 northern states of Nigeria, including Borno. scabornostate, Facebook In Nigeria, civil rights activists have launched a petition to strip the country’s constitution of all references to Islam. The petition calls for a secular Nigeria with no religious bias in governance; the removal of sharia law from the Nigerian constitution; and… Read more »
Tabish N., middle, had to wait years to officially be recognized as a Christian. csi Tabish N. converted to Christianity in 2008 shortly before her marriage to a Catholic man, Khurram Shahzad. But it has taken until now for Tabish to win the right to have her new religion entered on her official identification papers…. Read more »
Father Daniel Alphonsus Afina partnered with CSI to distribute aid to Christians attacked by Boko Haram, until he himself was abducted in June. acn Father Daniel Alphonsus Afina serves in Maiduguri, the city that Veldkamp describes as “ground zero for the Boko Haram terrorist movement that’s been terrorizing Christians for almost 15 years now in… Read more »
