Ex-ECWA General Secretary Backs US Lawmakers on Alleged Christian Genocide elanzanews.ng/ex-ecwa-gene...

#Nigeria: The Christian Association of Nigeria has issued a statement clarifying its position on ongoing attacks on Christian communities in light of significant efforts to deny their existence and severity. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/09/p...

#Myanmar/#Burma: Military forces in Sagaing Region deliberately bombed a crowd of civilians participating in a traditional Thadingyut candlelit vigil on 6 October, killing over 40 people and severely wounding approximately 50 others. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/09/p...

CSW extends heartfelt condolences to Nawab Bibi and the loved ones of Pastor Zafar Bhatti, who was robbed of the last 13 years of his life by the Pakistani authorities under the country’s notorious blasphemy laws. www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/08/p...

CSW's Sudan Consultant Mohaned Elnour speaks to DW News about the International Criminal Court's conviction of Janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman of war crimes and crimes against humanity in #Darfur, #Sudan between 2003 and 2004. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyBt...

#BLOG: For authorities in Cuba’s prisons, the right to freedom of religion or belief is a tool to manipulate forbinfull.org/2025/10/08/f... #Cuba

#BLOG: Para las autoridades de las cárceles cubanas, el derecho a la libertad de religión o creencias es solo una herramienta de manipulación forbinfull.org/2025/10/08/p... #Cuba

CSW condemns the attack on the mosque on Phyllis Avenue in Peacehaven. We are relieved that no-one was hurt in this instance.

#Sudan: CSW welcomes the judgement delivered in the Ali Abd-Al-Rahman case. The fact that this case details atrocities that were committed over two decades ago should serve as a warning to perpetrators everywhere. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/07/p...

UN Experts Urge Vietnam to Release Information on Death in Custody of Tulku Hungkar Dorje tchrd.org/2025/10/07/u...

UN urges Nicaragua to account for over 120 people forcibly disappeared since 2018 reut.rs/3KzBNAD

#India: A Christian family has been left homeless and without access to basic amenities following a violent mob attack in Mukaram village, Sukma District, Chhattisgarh State, on the morning of 28 September. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/06/p...

#BLOG: How the education system perpetuates religious intolerance in #Pakistan, and how it could be a route to change forbinfull.org/2025/10/06/h...

CSW's new report on the situation of freedom of religion or belief in #Cuba’s prisons finds that #FoRB is systematically violated, weaponised and used as a coercion and punishment tactic on prisoners throughout the country’s prison system. Read it here: www.csw.org.uk/cubaprisonsr...

CSW extends sincere condolences to the members of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, and to the wider Jewish community in the UK, following the appalling attack on one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar.

CSW has joined 100 organisations and humanitarian actors in calling for the establishment of safe, voluntary and dignified passage for civilians trapped in the city of El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur State. Read the letter here: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/02/r...

#ICYMI: CSW's oral statement on the #CentralAfricanRepublic, delivered yesterday under Agenda Item 10 of #HRC60. www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/02/r... #CAR

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the #Sudan is calling for immediate action to protect civilians in El Fasher after a deadly drone strike allegedly carried out by the Rapid Support Forces last week. #NotATarget Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/47Zluqy

#ICYMI: This week CSW delivered oral statements on the #DPRK/#NorthKorea, #Nicaragua and #Venezuela at #HRC60. Read them here:

In the first seven months of 2025, Islamist groups killed 7,087 Christians and abducted 7,800 others due to their faith. Nigeria now sees an average of 30 Christians killed every day, making it the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian. religionnews.com/2025/09/23/n...

Venezuela: The only hope for victims to find justice lies with the international community, says UN Fact-Finding Mission www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

#Sudan: At least 70 people were killed and an unknown number were injured in an attack by the Rapid Support Forces on a mosque near the Abu Souk Camp for internally displaced persons in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, on 19 September. www.csw.org.uk/2025/09/23/p...

#China: Chinese Christian human rights defender Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ by the Pudong New Area People's Court in Shanghai on 19 September. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/09/23/p... #张展 #ZhangZhan

‘Intolerance towards minorities stems from biased content in textbooks’ www.dawn.com/news/1942482...

#BLOG: India’s ‘freedom of religion’ laws have nothing to do with preventing forced conversions forbinfull.org/2025/09/15/i... #India #Uttarakhand

Rajasthan Assembly passes ‘anti-conversion’ Bill with steep penalties www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

#ICYMI: CSW's oral statement delivered during yesterday's Interactive Dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan at #HRC60. www.csw.org.uk/2025/09/09/r...

#Nicaragua: Dr Carlos Cárdenas Zepeda, a lawyer and Roman Catholic lay leader who had been detained incommunicado from 13 August, died in custody on 29 August. He was the second political prisoner to die in detention in the country in the space of a week. www.csw.org.uk/2025/09/08/p...

#BLOG: Superando la brecha: La importancia de encontrar puntos en común entre los grupos religiosos y las organizaciones seculares de derechos humanos forbinfull.org/2025/09/03/s... #Cuba #Nicaragua #LatinoAmerica #ElSalvador #Colombia #Mexico

#BLOG: Bridging the gap: The importance of finding common ground between religious groups and secular human rights organisations forbinfull.org/2025/09/03/b... #Cuba #Nicaragua #LatinAmerica #ElSalvador #Colombia #Mexico

#Nicaragua: Mauricio Alonso Prieto, a political activist who was detained alongside his wife and son during police raids in Jinotepe in Nicaragua’s Carazo Department, has died in detention. www.csw.org.uk/2025/08/26/p...

Crucial Response: The Significance of Information Inflow into North Korea forbinfull.org/2025/08/26/c... #NorthKorea #Blog

#NigeriaL Eight of the 16 children seized from the Du Merci orphanages in Kano and Kaduna States in 2019 were released on 13 August, after one of them suffered a mental breakdown. www.csw.org.uk/2025/08/22/p...

Sources report that police working on the case have since called the parish priest Gioan Nguyen Van Phi to apologise to him and the parishioners for the incident. CSW welcomes this development and we urge the authorities to ensure that the church faces no further harassment.

Combating Hate Speech: The True Beginning of Peace and Human Dignity forbinfull.org/2025/08/19/c...

Iraq: Christians keep faith eleven years after expulsion from Nineveh Plain www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52998

USCIRF Releases Report on Religious Freedom Violations Amid Sudan’s Two-Year Conflict www.uscirf.gov/news-room/re...

An ethnic cleansing of Muslims is happening right now in India's Assam state religionnews.com/2025/08/13/a... via @rns.org

Myanmar security forces involved in systematic torture, UN report says www.reuters.com/world/asia-p... via @reuters.com

Pastor Huang Yizi is the latest prisoner of a regime that will always find a way to arrest whoever it sees fit sightmagazine.com.au/essays/essay...

#ICYMI: A Catholic home church was raided by Vietnamese police during Mass at around 8:30pm on 11 August in Thái Nguyn province, northern #Vietnam. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...

#Nigeria: The founders of the Du Merci Centres for vulnerable children have launched a petition calling for the return of 16 children who have been in the custody of the Kano State Government since December 2019. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/08/11/p...

Colombia’s Minister of the Interior Armando Benedetti has indicated that the government will reject a controversial bill that would introduce increased oversight and control over religious entities in #Colombia. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/08/08/p...

#BLOG: The UK government’s efforts to produce a definition of Islamophobia could prove counterproductive. Read more: forbinfull.org/2025/08/07/t...

El Pastor Rudy Palacios Vargas se atrevió a denunciar las injusticias en Nicaragua. Por ello, ha sido acusado de asesinato y terrorismo. Leer más: forbinfull.org/2025/08/04/e...

Pastor Rudy Palacios Vargas dared to speak out against injustice in #Nicaragua. For that he has been labelled a murderer and a terrorist. Read more: forbinfull.org/2025/08/04/p...

Christian refugees caught in the crosshairs of U.S. immigration policy www.npr.org/2025/07/31/g... via @npr.org

#China: Protestant Pastor Huang Yizi was informed that he had been formally arrested on charges of ‘illegal business operations’ for selling recordings of sermons on 30 July. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/08/01/p...

CSW is calling on the Nicaraguan government to immediately release Protestant Pastor Rudy Palacios Vargas and seven other individuals arbitrarily detained on 17 July. Pastor Palacios Vargas has been an outspoken critic of the government since the 2018 protests. www.csw.org.uk/2025/07/31/p...

State Perpetration of Religious Freedom Violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran www.uscirf.gov/publications...