The Assad dynasty is gone. The brutal struggle for mastery in Syria and the broader Middle East goes on. Last night, President Biden took credit for Assad’s fall in a White House statement that recalled President Bush’s ill-fated “mission accomplished” speech about Iraq. Biden was serving as vice president when President Obama first announced regime… Read more »
On November 26, two Christians in eastern India framed by Hindu nationalists as allegedly having eaten beef must testify in court. The crime of killing a cow is punishable with a sentence of at least one year in prison. Two Christians in India from the state of Jharkhand are on trial over false accusations that… Read more »
Indigenous Christians in West Papua are calling on the new Indonesian government to drop plans to resume a controversial resettlement program that could see native Papuans further marginalized in their ancestral homeland. West Papuan Christians have reacted with dismay to an announcement by the newly elected government of President Prabowo Subianto that it plans to… Read more »
A Christian youth organization is leading calls for a crackdown on Islamist Fulani militias amid a surge in violent attacks in Plateau State and other parts of Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Following renewed attacks in Nigeria’s Plateau State, Christian youth organization Berom Youth-Moulders Association (BYM) has issued a statement calling for urgent military action to stem the tide… Read more »
Several groups of Christians in Sudan have been detained by government troops as they fled the civil war in Khartoum heading to the Nuba Mountains where there are close to 800,000 people displaced. Christian Solidarity International (CSI) is providing life-saving humanitarian aid in the Nuba Mountains, including food assistance, educational materials for schools, water pumps… Read more »
Christian Solidarity International (CSI) is profoundly concerned over the growing threat to religious minorities in Bangladesh following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
A year after Azerbaijan ethnically cleansed the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh, at least 23 ethnic Armenians are still being detained by Baku, in defiance of international calls for their release. On October 1, CSI will host a side event at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to highlight the case of these… Read more »
Around 400 properties belonging to religious minorities—mostly Hindus and Christians—came under attack on August 5-6, within 48 hours of the resignation and departure of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, according to the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council. The attacks spanned roughly half of Bangladesh’s 64 districts, with incidents reported in at least 30 districts. At… Read more »
Christian Solidarity International (CSI), a Christian human rights organization, has called on United Nations (UN) member states to stop the use of economic sanctions that harm civilian populations. CSI’s Joel Veldkamp addressed the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 15. Veldkamp pointed out that the use of economic sanctions, sometimes called “unilateral coercive… Read more »
John Eibner, president of Christian Solidarity International (CSI) recently spoke with a Czech Catholic newspaper about the continuing worldwide persecution of Christians. Eibner said the reasons for persecution have not changed for 2,000 years. “Christians are persecuted today for essentially the same reasons that Jesus and the first Christians were persecuted,” says Eibner. “Reflecting a… Read more »
