Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, the former Archbishop of Caracas and one of the most prominent figures in the Venezuelan Catholic Church, was prevented from leaving #Venezuela for Bogotá, Colombia, on 10 December. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/18/p...

#Nigeria: Thirteen people are now known to have been abducted by armed assailants from the First Evangelical Church Winning All in Aiyetoro Kiri, Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area in the Kogi West Senatorial District on 14 December. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/17/p...

Man who documented Uyghur camps in China may face removal from US after ICE arrest www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... via @theguardian.com

Essay: Reflections on another year working for freedom of religion or belief for all. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #CSW #religiousfreedom #Vietnam #Thailand #YQuynhBdap #Montagnard #Nicaragua #CarmenMaríaSáenzMartínez #LesbiadelSocorroGutiérrezPoveda sightmagazine.com.au/essays/essay...

The outcome of Myanmar's elections is guaranteed, but this can by no means be permitted to grant the regime a veneer of legitimacy on the international stage. Read more: forbinfull.org/2025/12/15/t... #Myanmar #Burma #WhatIsHappeningInMyanmar #Blog #Elections

Tica Bus, an international transport company based in Central America, has been forced to add Bibles, books, magazines and printed newspapers to the list of items prohibited from entering #Nicaragua. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/12/p...

#Myanmar: The Military Council in Kachin State has reportedly ordered all churches in townships designated for the country’s 28 December elections to hold their Christmas celebrations before 20 December to avoid conflict with the elections. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/12/p...

#Nigeria: CSW welcomes news of the release of the students from St Mary’s boarding school. We wish these students and their families a swift and full recovery from this traumatic ordeal, and urge the Nigerian authorities to do all they can to assist with this. www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/09/p...

The crisis facing tribal Christians in #India is not merely a challenge over burial grounds, it is a struggle over their identity, a sense of belonging and the constitutional promise of equality. Read more in CSW's latest blog: forbinfull.org/2025/12/08/e...

#India: Approximately 2,000 Christians representing more than 200 denominations gathered in New Delhi on 29 November to draw attention to increasing hostility faced by Christians and to advocate for long-delayed legal and constitutional reforms. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...

#Colombia: Newly released video footage appears to depict a group of religious and social leaders being transported to a location to which they were summoned by an illegal armed group in #Calamar, shortly before they are believed to have been killed. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/05/p...

CSW calls on the Northumbria Police to conduct a detailed investigation into the physical assault of our Sudan Specialist Mohaned Elnour at a demonstration in Newcastle on 30 November, ensuring that those responsible face appropriate consequences. www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/02/p...

#Myanmar/#Burma: The Chin Human Rights Organization and CSW have urgently called on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of the Myanmar Military. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/02/p...

China ‘weaponises legislation’ to tighten crackdown on religion, new report warns premierchristian.news/en/news/arti...

#Nicaragua: Roman Catholic lay leaders Carmen María Sáenz Martínez and Lesbia del Socorro Gutiérrez Poveda were released into house arrest in Matagalpa after spending nearly 16 months in incommunicado detention, on 29 November. www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...

#Vietnam / #Thailand Y Quynh Bdap’s extradition to Vietnam is an egregious and flagrant breach of international law. Thailand is a willing and hospitable co-conspirator in Vietnam’s transnational repression of a UNHCR-recognised refugee. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/12/01/p...

North Korea claims victory in 'war on religion' www.dw.com/en/north-kor...

Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has responded to a significant surge in armed violence and mass abductions across the country by declaring a nationwide security emergency. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/27/p...

CSW has released a new report today which reveals the complex and repressive legal architecture underpinning escalating violations of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in China. Read it here: www.csw.org.uk/chinareport2...

#SUDAN: Two churches in the city of Port Sudan were targeted by vandals on 26 November, in what appears to be a coordinated attack. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/28/p...

CSW wholeheartedly disagrees with the Thai authorities’ decision to reject Y Quynh Bdap’s appeal. We implore PM Anutin Charnvirakul not to authorise this extradition order, and we call on other governments to assist in resettling Bdap and his family. www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/26/p...

#Nigeria: 24 schoolgirls who were abducted from Government Girls Secondary School in Maga, Kebbi State, were released on 25 November. CSW continues to call for a decisive response to the recent surge in attacks and abduction in the country. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/26/p...

This week marks nine years since the Colombian government ratified a peace argreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. However, as we wrote earlier this month, the current government's efforts to pursue 'Total Peace' are floundering. Read more: forbinfull.org/2025/11/11/d...

#URGENT: The legal team of UNHCR-recognised refugee & human rights defender #YQuynhBdap have been informed that a Thai court may approve his extradition tomorrow. If returned to Vietnam, he faces torture & prolonged detention. Thailand must uphold #HumanRights & #NonRefoulement.

#Nigeria: 38 members of the Christ Apostolic Church in the Eruku community in Kwara State, whose abduction by Fulani militia was caught on video, were released on 23 November amid an unprecedented rise in insecurity in the country. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/25/p...

Deaths of child recruits will not halt bombing of illegal armed groups, Colombia says @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Colombia #FARC #PedroSanchez sightmagazine.com.au/news/deaths-...

Aid chief says UN pressing to enter Sudan's al-Fashir after reports of atrocities reut.rs/447DMmA

#Nigeria: CSW joins the GCFRN in calling on the governmentt to urgently address violations of #FoRB across the country. Recent attacks in Borno, Kaduna, Kebbi and Kwara States underscore the severity of the security situation and must be responded to decisively. www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/20/p...

#China: CSW condemns the formal arrest Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri and 17 other leaders from Zion Church, all of whom have been targeted solely for the peaceful exercise of their religious beliefs. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/20/p... #ZionChurch

#India: The family of a Christian man from Chhattisgarh State who passed away on 5 November was denied the right to bury him in his ancestral village. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/20/p...

Authorities in #Vietnam sentenced ethnic Khmer Krom monk Venerable Kim Som Rinh and activists Thach Nga and Thach Xuan Dong to three and a half years in prison on charges of ‘abusing democratic freedoms’ on 18 November. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/19/p...

Atrocities in al-Fashir have brought Sudan back into the spotlight. The international community must act decisively sightmagazine.com.au/essays/essay...

Sheikh Hasina Verdict | Bangladesh Court Finds Ex-PM Guilty In Crimes Against Humanity Case www.ndtv.com/world-news/s...

#COLOMBIA: When President Petro came to power in 2022, hopes were high that his key policy, ‘Paz Total’ (Total Peace), would bring a reduction in violence. And yet three years on illegal armed and criminal groups continue to have significant influence. Read more: forbinfull.org/2025/11/11/d...

#COLOMBIA: Cuando el presidente Petro asumió el poder en 2022, había grandes esperanzas de que su política clave, «Paz Total», redujera la violencia. Sin embargo, tres años después, los grupos armados ilegales y criminales siguen teniendo una influencia significativo: forbinfull.org/2025/11/11/a...

#Syria: CSW is saddened by news of the death of the Syrian Druze community leader Dr Hamza Shaheen, who was abducted from his family home in Deir Ali near Damascus on 27 October. www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/10/p...

Police to reopen investigation into Pastor Koh’s disappearance, says Saifuddin www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/...

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Cathedral and church targeted in overnight bomb attack thecatholicherald.com/article/cath...

'Fifty or sixty people in a single street': Witnesses describe civilian killings in Sudan's al-Fashir reut.rs/47I8Pq3

Nigeria's army chief vows to crush insurgents amid US pressure over religious violence reut.rs/3WJKVFC

#Malaysia The Malaysian High Court has ordered the government of Malaysia and police to pay a sum of 37 million Malaysian Ringgits for their involvement in the February 2017 abduction of Pastor Raymond Koh. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/05/p...

CSW welcomes the US' designation of #Nigeria as a #CPC, which should be regarded by the Nigerian government as an encouragement to address grave violations of freedom of religion or belief that have persisted for decades with greater urgency. www.csw.org.uk/2025/11/03/p...

#Tanzania: CSW urges the international community to stand with the Tanzanian people by persuading the government to exercise restraint in addressing desperate citizens who feel protest is now their only means of redress. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/31/p...

#India: A group of assailants violently attacked a bus carrying around 10 to 15 Christian missionaries from Kerala as it was departing from a private home in Juthana Village, in the Kathua District of Jammu and Kashmir, on 23 October. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...

#SYRIA: Two people were killed and 11 were injured when gunmen opened fire on a coach carrying Druze civilians in Suwayda Province on 28 October. The day before, Druze Doctoer Hamza Shaheen, was abducted from his family home in Deir Ali near Damascus. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...

#VIETNAM / #THAILAND Approximately 70 Vietnamese Montagnard refugees were detained by Thai immigration authorities in Nonthaburi, a suburb north of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, on the morning of 29 October. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/30/p...

#EGYPT A reconciliation session convened by authorities in Nazlat Jalf in Upper Egypt’s Minya Province in the aftermath of sectarian violence has imposed unjust and excessive conditions on the entire family of a Christian teenager. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/29/p...

#SUDAN CSW is calling for urgent international action as credible reports of atrocities against civilians are emerging following the Rapid Support Forces’ announcement that they had captured the city of #ElFasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/28/p...

#SYRIA: Reham Hammouda, an Alawite schoolteacher and mother of two, was killed in the Al-Walid neighbourhood of Homs on the evening of 25 October after an unknown assailant on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at her family home. Read more: www.csw.org.uk/2025/10/27/p...