Paul and Ruth Musa are in Boko Haram captivity. Screenshot from video Paul Musa, 59, serving with the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Gamboru Ngala, Borno State, and his wife Ruth, 50, were kidnapped by Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram on March 23, 2023. At the time of their kidnapping, Paul and… Read more »
CSI International President John Eibner visits the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan in 2021. csi Statement on the two-year anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno Karabakh Today marks two years since the armed forces of Azerbaijan launched an unprovoked attack on the Republic of Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh, after a brutal nine-month siege. Within two weeks,… Read more »
Gen Z protesters take to the streets in Nepal. provided to csi The collapse of Nepal’s government following mass protests has created a security vacuum and left the country’s Christian minority deeply anxious about their safety and future. The uncertainty has already led to threats against churches and raised fears of violence by extremist… Read more »
A delegation of Syrian minorities participated in a press conference in Geneva on September 9, 2025: Joseph Lahdo (left), Masoud Aqil, Sheruan Hassan, Rawan Osman, Nawras Alsaghbini, Mimi Hassan, and Mouna Ghanem. csi The press conference, entitled “Massacre, Displacement, and Silence: The Struggle of Minorities in Syria,” was organized by the Geneva Press Club… Read more »
Armenian Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan waves to supporters at a courtroom in Yerevan on 25 August 2025. photo: Narek Aleksanyan Guest contribution from Alison Tahmizian Meuse YEREVAN—Two charismatic archbishops, a philanthropist, the father of a martyred soldier, and a young female activist are among the political prisoners Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s administration put behind bars or… Read more »
Christians face severe restrictions on building churches. csi MEDIA RELEASE Yesterday, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) urged the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the government of Sri Lanka to address the ongoing discrimination against religious minorities in Sri Lanka. In a statement delivered at the UN Human Rights Council… Read more »
On February 8, 2025, Suleiman Khalil, the former mayor of the Christian town of Sadad, who heroically defended his town against ISIS in 2015, was arrested at his home by agents of the new Syrian regime. CSI is calling for his immediate release. Suleiman Khalil, a Syriac Orthodox Christian engineer, businessman and former mayor of… Read more »
Aid workers distribute sorghum to IDPs. csi The ongoing war between the rebels of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has exacerbated the refugee crisis in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile regions of southern Sudan. It has so far resulted in nearly eight million registered internally displaced, according… Read more »
A Christian family raising pigs in a Bangladesh village had their farm attacked by a mob earlier this year. photo provided to csi A Christian man’s pig farm was destroyed by a mob in Muslim-majority Bangladesh after a local mosque issued a religious decree banning pig farming in the area. The attack, and authorities’… Read more »
CSI has learned that Vicken Euljekjian, one of the 23 Armenian hostages confirmed to be held by Azerbaijan, has been on a hunger strike for 21 days. Euljekjian’s wife Linda learned of the hunger strike on September 2, when he was allowed to call her in Lebanon from his prison cell in Baku. Linda was… Read more »
