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 »
Thousands of people, both Christian and Muslim, have been terrorized by Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Sarfraz A., 40, a Muslim, was arrested after being accused of blasphemy by a local cleric. For weeks after his arrest, his family did not know what had happened to him. Sarfraz spent almost a year and a half in jail…. Read more »
The Nuba Christians in the state of South Kordofan in the south of Sudan are under attack from the Islamist-dominatedgovernment in Khartoum. They also have to contend with food shortages caused by flooding. CSI project manager Franco Majok visited the area in February and spoke with members of the community. Mary Albasha Koko has experienced… Read more »
Today, the Save Karabakh Coalition called on Ignazio Cassis, the head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, to use Switzerland’s presidency of the UN Security Council to help the besieged people of Nagorno Karabakh. For over five months – since December 12 – this region, home to an ancient community of 120,000 Armenian… Read more »
A Christian cleaner, Mussarat Bibi, is in custody in Pakistan along with her Muslim colleague, Muhammad Sarmad, after being accused of deliberately setting fire to pages of the Koran. Bibi and Sarmad, workers at a girls’ school in Arifwala, Punjab, are unable to read and write. Bibi is widowed and has three daughters. Her job… Read more »
Today, in the wake of earthquakes that killed tens of thousands and left millions homeless, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) wrote to U.S. President Joe Biden, urging him once again to lift the economic sanctions imposed on Syria by the U.S. In a joint action, Baroness Caroline Cox, a member of the UK House of Lords… Read more »
CSI-USA is asking for your earnest prayers and support for the recent tragedy in Turkey and Syria. As of this morning, more than 11,000 people have been killed and more than forty thousand injured according to officials, after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday, February, 7th. The quake, one of the… Read more »
Today, John Eibner, the president of Christian Solidarity International, and the Baroness Cox of Queensbury, a member of the UK’s House of Lords, wrote a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to seek a resolution at the United Nations Security Council to end Azerbaijan’s blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region home to 120,000 Armenian Christians. If Azerbaijan… Read more »
