Syrian security forces in Mazara’a in Suwayda province – July 14, 2025. @sayed_ridha, x. Syrian government forces have once again launched an attack on religious minority populations – this time against the Druze, a religious group which makes up about 3% of Syria’s population, and who are considered heretics by jihadist groups. Between July 14… Read more »
Siranush Sahakyan is the director of the International and Comparative Law Center in Yerevan. photo from i.c. law – armenia Guest commentary by Siranush Sahakyan In June 2025, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan escalated public attacks against the Armenian Apostolic Church by referring to churches as “closets cluttered with junk,” publicly insulting clergy, and accusing the… Read more »
Etchmiadzin, the Mother See of the Armenian Apostolic Church, 2023. photo: csi Media Release Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has joined with other religious freedom advocates in calling on the Armenian government to end its persecution of the Armenian church. In a statement, the organizations and individuals express “grave concerns over the intensifying campaign by the… Read more »
Sharia law applies in 12 northern states of Nigeria, including Borno. scabornostate, Facebook In Nigeria, civil rights activists have launched a petition to strip the country’s constitution of all references to Islam. The petition calls for a secular Nigeria with no religious bias in governance; the removal of sharia law from the Nigerian constitution; and… Read more »
Tabish N., middle, had to wait years to officially be recognized as a Christian. csi Tabish N. converted to Christianity in 2008 shortly before her marriage to a Catholic man, Khurram Shahzad. But it has taken until now for Tabish to win the right to have her new religion entered on her official identification papers…. Read more »
Father Daniel Alphonsus Afina partnered with CSI to distribute aid to Christians attacked by Boko Haram, until he himself was abducted in June. acn Father Daniel Alphonsus Afina serves in Maiduguri, the city that Veldkamp describes as “ground zero for the Boko Haram terrorist movement that’s been terrorizing Christians for almost 15 years now in… Read more »
The mountainous Kabylie region of Algeria. IRRIGATIONDZ, Wikipedia A coalition of Christians in Algeria’s Kabylie region has issued an urgent appeal to the Trump administration, requesting immediate intervention to address what they describe as systematic persecution of Christian minorities by the Algerian government. The plea comes as virtually all Protestant churches in the Kabylie… Read more »
Father Alphonsus Afina is a trusted local partner in Nigeria. csi Media Release Christian Solidarity International (CSI) is calling on the Nigerian government to take urgent action to secure the release of a Catholic priest, Daniel Alphonsus Afina, who has been abducted by Boko Haram. Afina, aged 41, serves as a trusted CSI partner in… Read more »
Swiss National Councillor Erich Vontobel addresses an audience at the U.S. Capitol. Media Release WASHINGTON DC – “Does the U.S. believe that a favorable and lasting peace in the South Caucasus – a region of growing geopolitical and economic significance – can be built on the basis of ethno-religious cleansing?” Dr. John Eibner, the president… Read more »
The UK House of Commons. Support for the Swiss Peace Initiative for Nagorno Karabakh is growing in the UK. On June 18, the Chair and Vice Chair of the UK’s parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief (APPG FoRB) issued a statement in support of the Swiss Peace Initiative, an… Read more »
