One of the victims of a June 2025 Hindu nationalist attack on Christians in Odisha state. catholicconnect.in In 2025, local monitoring groups recorded nearly 900 cases of physical assaults, disruptions to church services and threats against worshipers across multiple states in India, according to local sources of Christian Solidarity International (CSI). Attacks surge over… 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: “Only the gospel can bring both spiritual and physical deliverance” If Muslims are killed as well as Christians in Nigeria,… Read more »
Altar of the church of Libyan Martyrs in Minya. By 松照庵 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikime…=154159619 MEDIA RELEASE Christian Solidarity International (CSI) released today a new essay by His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos OBE, the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London and Papal Legate to the United Kingdom, as part of its ongoing essay series,… Read more »
Rev. Bobbo Paschal was held captive for two months. The Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, in a statement reported by Nigerian media and the Fides Catholic news agency, announced the release of Bobbo Paschal on January 17. Father Paschal had been kidnapped by an Islamist Fulani militia from his rectory in Kushe Gugdu on November… Read more »
The judge told the Christian convert it was “a disgrace” that he was “even breathing the air in this sacred courtroom.” Moments later, he handed down a ten-year prison sentence. This case, from 2020, was not an isolated one. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, Christian believers from a Muslim background are treated as… Read more »
Fabrice Balanche is a leading Syria expert and a member of CSI’s Board of Advisers. CSI-Germany: In March 2025, the new Islamist authorities in Syria carried out indiscriminate attacks on Alawites in coastal areas, killing thousands. The Alawite massacre came three months after a coalition of rebel groups headed by the jihadist HTS overthrew Syria’s… Read more »
YEREVAN – The government of Azerbaijan on Wednesday released four Armenians taken hostage during its 2020-2023 military takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh. The news was announced by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. “Gevorg Sujyan, Davit Davtyan, Vicken Euljeckjian, and Vagif Khachatryan were handed over by the representatives of the relevant bodies of the Republic of Azerbaijan on… Read more »
The burned out market in Kasuwan Daji, Niger: X 2025 ended and 2026 began in Nigeria with a series of deadly attacks across northern and central Nigeria that instilled fear in rural Christian communities. Dozens were killed and hundreds displaced in the violence that also saw churches damaged and houses destroyed. Media attributed the… Read more »
Syrian government forces enter the Ashrafiya neighborhood of Aleppo after days of fighting with Kurdish forces – January 8, 2026. (Photo: Levant 24). Beginning on January 4, heaving fighting erupted in Aleppo city between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. The fighting has forced tens of thousands of Syrians to flee their… Read more »
Raymond Koh, a Christian pastor, led humanitarian efforts serving poor and marginalized communities in Malaysia prior to his abduction. facebook A Malaysian court has ruled that state police were responsible for the 2017 enforced disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh, a Christian leader abducted in broad daylight in an incident captured on CCTV. Nearly eight… Read more »
