Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian leader from Nagorno Karabakh, is being held hostage by Azerbaijan. CSI has joined a coalition of human rights groups in a complaint to UN bodies about a conflict of interest on the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – a conflict of interest that may have led the Working Group… Read more »
Khalda was pregnant when the family had to flee. csi The couple and their six children arrived in the camp after a dangerous journey that lasted nearly five days. At the time of their escape, Khalda was pregnant. Fighting had become constant, with gunfire erupting every day; civilians were frequently caught in the crossfire…. Read more »
Intazar fled to Eri camp with her children. csi “My name is Intazar. I am forty-five years old, and I am a mother of five children. I came here in November after fleeing from Khartoum Province because of the war. My husband is no longer alive. I lost him during the conflict, and since… Read more »
A Hindu nationalist from Nepal at a protest against the use of the term ‘secularism’ in the country’s constitution. csi archive image Nepal has a new government after a relatively new party secured a near supermajority in the March 2026 elections, held after a Gen Z-led uprising brought down the previous administration. The new… Read more »
Deborah Yakubu, a Nigerian Christian, was lynched by Muslim fellow students in 2022 Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has released a new contribution by Professor Yusufu Turaki, a renowned Nigerian theologian, to its ongoing essay series, “Persecution and the unity of believers.” The essay series, initiated by CSI’s President Dr. John Eibner, brings together reflections… Read more »
ZURICH — I first encountered Zori Balayan in Yerevan in 1991. The times were politically charged and chaotic. The Soviet Union was in its death throes. CSI was then undertaking its first of many human rights fact-finding visits to Nagorno Karabakh, at a time when it was under a strict Soviet-Azeri blockade. I had been… Read more »
Forty people were killed at St. Anthony’s Shrine. By AntanO – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57615768 Churches across Sri Lanka held memorial services on Easter Sunday to mark the seventh anniversary of the 2019 Easter bombings that killed at least 269 people and injured more than 500. Meanwhile, Christian survivors and families of… Read more »
CSI made several interventions at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in March. csi Since the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran on February 28, the war has continued to spread, involving ever more countries in the Middle East and claiming the lives of civilians across the region. On March 2, Iran’s ally… Read more »
سلّطت منظمة التضامن المسيحي الدولي الضوءَ على استمرار احتجاز رئيس بلدية صدد السابق سليمان خليل، وذلك من خلال مداخلة رسمية أمام مجلس حقوق الإنسان في جنيف. لا يزال سليمان خليل محتجزًا لدى الحكومة السورية الانتقالية دون توجيه أي اتهامات إليه، ودون السماح له بالحق في الحصول على محامٍ، وذلك منذ الثامن من فبراير 2025 أي… Read more »
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly meets at the Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai. Government of Maharashtra, Attribution via Wikimedia Commons More than half of India’s population is on course to live under controversial anti-conversion laws as states continue to expand statutes effectively restricting religious conversion. The latest measure, passed in the western state of Maharashtra, pushes… Read more »
