Christians gather to pray for peace in Bangladesh in August 2024. provided to csi Analysis by Anugrah Kumar Bangladesh will hold general elections in February 2026, the first national vote since Sheikh Hasina’s government was ousted in a student-led uprising that promised to establish a “new” Bangladesh. However, as the Muslim-majority country prepares to vote,… Read more »
A Christian victim of a Fulani attack in Plateau State. csi Since U.S. President Donald Trump posted about “the killing of Christians” on November 1, global media attention has turned toward Nigeria. Religious freedom advocates know the country as the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian. Critics argue the violence has… Read more »
In central India, a local Christian recorded a mob assaulting Christians after a burial. screenshot from video The violence began after a local mob, allegedly provoked by Hindu nationalists, claimed that a Christian burial insulted their deity and violated tribal land rights. The buried man was the father of Rajman Salam, the elected village… Read more »
Background image: In Plateau State, Nigeria, Hassan John talks with the family of Rose Matthew after her husband was targeted and killed by Fulani militants in 2020. photo provided to csi The Christian Solidarity Podcast: “I’ve presided over so many mass burials” Comments by President Donald Trump and the subsequent U.S. designation of Nigeria as… Read more »
Iraqi Christians take part in a CSI-supported bee-keeping workshop. csi Iraq’s Christian population has experienced a catastrophic collapse. While ongoing instability in Iraq has made precise national statistics difficult to procure, available information consistently affirms that the Christian population has plummeted. In a plea for international support this September, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch… Read more »
A family in Shuwari IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno. csi The Islamic terrorist group Jama’at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da’wa wa al-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, has killed thousands of Christians, and razed hundreds of Christian villages and communities across Borno State since it started its military campaign against the Nigerian government in 2009…. Read more »
Typical dwellings in the Nuba Mountains. csi The bombing on November 29 targeted Kumo, a village close to the town of Kauda in the Nuba Mountains region that borders South Sudan. The Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile region are largely under the control of the SPLA-N rebel group. SPLA-N has aligned itself with… Read more »
CSI supports Indian church leaders working under discrimination and violence, like Pastor G. (pictured), whose church has been attacked over 10 times. csi Guest commentary by Dr. Sam Paul Kolakaluri As of November 2025, anti-conversion laws (often illogically called “Freedom of Religion” or “prohibition of unlawful conversion” laws) exist in multiple Indian states. Those states… Read more »
Dr. Rowan Williams is a former Archbishop of Canterbury. National Assembly for Wales, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons MEDIA RELEASE Christian Solidarity International (CSI) released today a new essay by Dr. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, as part of its ongoing international series, “Persecution and the unity of believers.” Responding to… Read more »
Suleiman Khalil’s daughter, Natalie, with a CSI delegation in Washington D.C. csi On November 1, President Donald Trump placed Nigeria back on the U.S. list of countries of particular concern (CPC) for religious freedom. In his announcement of the CPC designation, Trump stated that Christianity was “facing an existential threat in Nigeria,” where thousands of… Read more »
