At the UN, Professor Fabrice Balanche speaks about the massacres of Alawite Muslims in Syria in March 2025. csi Watch the full event here: GENEVA – “Despite some happy words at the beginning of this new interim constitution, it in fact establishes an authoritarian presidential system,” said Joshua Landis, a leading scholar on Syria, at… Read more »
Suleiman Khalil in 2017. csi. Media Release GENEVA – The daughter of Suleiman Khalil, the former mayor of Sadad in Syria, has written to the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Geir Pedersen, asking him to intervene on behalf of her imprisoned father. Natalie Khalil, the eldest daughter of the imprisoned former mayor, also made… Read more »
French President Macron expressed support for Armenian Premier Pashinyan. www.primeminister.am CSI statement CSI calls for release of imprisoned archbishops and respect for separation of church and state On June 29 French President Emmanuel Macron assured Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of his “solidarity” as he intensifies a wave of arrests and other coercive measures against the… Read more »
Abi McDougal reads out a CSI statement on Syria at the UN Human Rights Council. Video screenshot: csi On the evening of June 22, two assailants stormed the Mar Elias Orthodox church in Damascus’s old city district, opening fire with an automatic weapon and detonating a bomb. Close to 30 worshipers were killed, including… Read more »
Swiss parliamentarians express support for Nagorno Karabakh during Azerbaijan’s blockade, February 27, 2023. csi Erich Vontobel and Stefan Müller-Altermatt In this piece, first published in the Tages Anzeiger, Swiss MPs Erich Vontobel and Stefan Müller-Altermatt react to the Swiss Federal Council’s claim that it cannot fulfill its obligation to hold a peace forum for… Read more »
One of the victims of a Hindu nationalist attack on a Christian prayer service in Odisha state, India, on June 21. Photo: Bishop Pallab Lima More than 30 Christians who had gathered for a prayer meeting were injured in an attack by a large mob in eastern India’s Odisha state on the morning of… Read more »
The Christian Solidarity Podcast: Understanding the conflict in the Caucasus In this pilot episode of the Christian Solidarity Podcast, host Abi McDougal talks with CSI’s director of advocacy, Dr. Joel Veldkamp, about Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of Armenian Christians from Nagorno Karabakh. They explore the historical context of the conflict, the implications of the Swiss… Read more »
A suicide bomber killed nearly 30 people at worship at Mar Elias Orthodox Church in Damascus on June 22, 2025. Photo: Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch. The devastating suicide bombing at Damascus’s Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church on June 22, 2025, which claimed nearly 30 innocent lives during Sunday Divine Liturgy, has shattered any… Read more »
Professor Fabrice Balanche (left) and Professor Joshua Landis (right) will speak about the threat to religious minorities in the “new Syria.” The event will be held in Room XXV of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, at 10 am CEDT. It will be livestreamed here. The recording of the event will be available to… Read more »
CSI made a statement on Syria at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. file photo: csi The day after a suicide bomber massacred 27 Christians at worship in Damascus, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) made a statement at the UN Human Rights Council warning of the threat of genocide to religious minorities in Syria…. Read more »
