A Catholic priest in north-central Nigeria is calling for urgent assistance for his parishioners following two brutal attacks on the community by Islamist militants in the space of two months. Rev. Fr. Uke Gabriel Ter only took charge of the parish of Zaman Dabo in southern Kaduna State in early September, just weeks after the… Read more »
The Christian community of Wereng in Nigeria’s Plateau State is in a state of fear after a renewed attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen left six people dead. On the night of October 5, gunmen invaded the community, killing a local chief and five others and injuring three, according to CSI’s local partner Emancipation Center for… Read more »
In open letter to President Trump, human rights group calls for U.S. to suspend military aid to Azerbaijan and Turkey ZURICH – Christian Solidarity International, a human rights NGO campaigning for religious freedom and human dignity, today condemned the joint Turkish-Azerbaijani attack on Nagorno-Karabakh, a tiny region in the Caucuses inhabited by 150,000 Christian Armenians…. Read more »
Three hundred men and women who were held in slavery in Sudan have returned home to South Sudan in the latest retrieval operation organized by CSI. Project manager Franco Majok oversaw the liberation of slaves that took place on August 15 and 16. The former slaves, who had all endured years of forced labor and… Read more »
In Dhaka, the overcrowded capital of Bangladesh, an estimated 600,000 children were living on the streets, relying on odd jobs to survive, when the coronavirus pandemic struck. For the past two months, CSI has been working with project partner William Samaddar from Engage Bangladesh to provide temporary shelter for some of these homeless children and… Read more »
Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, the former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has been forced to take extraordinary security precautions after receiving death threats and being repeatedly interrogated by national security officers. The threats come after Dr. Mailaifa publicly challenged official narratives about the widespread murder and displacement of civilians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. … Read more »
Dozens of families in Wereng community in Nigeria’s central Plateau State are fighting for their existence after all their crops were destroyed overnight. Local farmers who had been looking forward to a plentiful harvest are now despairing over how they will feed and provide for their families. On the night of September 4, herdsmen and… Read more »
In South Sudan, a drought has left many families in desperate need of food. CSI was able to prevent widescale hunger by providing sorghum to thousands of people in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal State in August. The rainy season should have started in April or May but this year the rains did not come until July…. Read more »
Children in Pakistan are forced to learn about Islam from an early age – even those that don’t come from Muslim families. CSI’s local partner is leading a campaign to keep religion out of school books, which fuel hatred against Christians and other minorities. The teaching materials used in Pakistan’s schools are written by Muslims… Read more »
Dozens of people have died, hundreds have been injured and thousands displaced following Islamist Fulani attacks on Christian villages in central Nigeria in July and August 2020. CSI is responding with emergency assistance. The Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan in southern Kaduna State made an urgent appeal to CSI for help in meeting the people’s great… Read more »
