On June 18, Christian Solidarity International participated in a meeting of the European Parliament’s Intergroup for Christians in the Middle East. The meeting was focused on the situation for Christians in Iraq. CSI’s director for public advocacy, Joel Veldkamp, briefed members of the European Parliament, alongside Pascale Warda, the former Iraqi minister for refugees and… Read more »
Suleiman Khalil, 52, the former mayor of the Christian town of Sadad in Syria, has been detained since February 8, 2026. MEDIA RELEASE On Friday, a coalition of leading religious freedom advocates sent an open letter to Ambassador Tom Barrack, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Syria, asking him to secure the release of… Read more »
Swiss MP Stefan Müller-Altermatt speaks at an event with leaders from Nagorno Karabakh at the parliament house on April 30. csi When Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis told Parliament on June 15 that convening a peace forum for the forcefully displaced Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh was “not possible” due to Switzerland’s inability to speak… Read more »
Lord Alton speaks at a hearing on coerced conversions of minority women at the UK parliament on June 16. Photo: Sophie Robinson, Institute for Development Studies. Addressing an event at the UK parliament on June 16, Christian Solidarity International’s director for public advocacy, Joel Veldkamp, shared the story of Neha Faqir, an 18-year-old Pakistani… Read more »
Three Christian women mourn their husbands, who were killed by suspected Fulani militants on June 10, during their burial in Sol Village, Ta-Hoss community, Riyom Local Government Area. csi. At least 20 Christians were killed within a week in a string of attacks attributed to Fulani militants in southern Kaduna and Plateau states, in… Read more »
Arif Salam was violently assaulted because of his faith. csi Salam, 55, earns his livelihood as a bicycle mechanic. Whenever opportunities arise, he openly shares his Christian faith with others. His commitment to spreading the Christian message has made him a respected witness among local believers. But not everyone is happy about Salam’s evangelism…. Read more »
Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis addresses parliament on the Nagorno Karabakh question on 15 June 2026. Source: parlament.ch Last Wednesday, Erich Vontobel, a member of the Swiss parliament, deposited a formal question to Switzerland’s Federal Council. Fifteen months ago, the parliament mandated the Council to organize a peace forum between the Armenians of Nagorno… Read more »
When Nancy, 37, was playfully struck in the abdomen by her son, no one imagined that an affectionate gesture would uncover such a harsh truth. “I felt an unbearable pain,” she recalls, her voice still trembling. Her husband rushed her to the hospital. An MRI showed a suspicious pelvic mass, and doctors called in a… Read more »
June 9 – Two and a half months after her disappearance, a Pakistani Christian woman named Neha Faqir enters the Lahore High Court wearing Islamic garb. When bonded laborers Faqir Masih and Rasoola Bibi enrolled their 18-year-old daughter Neha in a sewing course, they believed they were giving her an opportunity for a better… Read more »
Bagrat Galstanyan. X YEREVAN – On June 4, 2026, Armenia’s Criminal Court of Appeals replaced the pretrial detention of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan with house arrest, following nearly one year of incarceration for the country’s most outspoken clergyman. Galstanyan is the leader of the “Holy Struggle” movement, born from protests in 2024 in the northeastern province… Read more »
