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Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is pleased to announce the launch of CSW Nigeria and to congratulate Rev. Yanusa Nmadu, its Founder-Director.

The Congolese judge who acquitted human rights lawyer and former Presidential Candidate, Marie Therese Nlandu has been detained in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Indications that the death toll following the weekend's violence in the Tundun Wada area of Kano State, northern Nigeria, may be higher than initially estimated are beginning to emerge as more information about the causes of the violence are brought to light.

Two Pentecostal pastors were assassinated last week in southern Colombia; it appears that the 17th Brigade of the leftist guerrilla group, FARC, is responsible. Pastor Humberto Mendez, age 63, and Pastor Joel Cruz Garcia, age 27, were approached at around 8:00 PM on July 5, and taken from their homes in the village of El Dorado, located in the department of Huila in the southern part of the country, where FARC has a strong presence.

Sixteen suspects in the murder of a Christian secondary school teacher in the northern Nigerian state of Gombe, have been released without charge. The decision has caused consternation in local Christian circles.

Four female Christian nurses and two Christian teaching staff were suspended from the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences nursing school in Rawalpindi yesterday, after they were suspected of crossing out a Koranic verse posted on a notice board.

Burma Army troops have reportedly shot dead a deaf man, raped and murdered a woman, taken thousands of villagers for forced labour and displaced thousands more people in their continuing offensive against Karen civilians.

Marie Therese Nlandu, the human rights lawyer detained in prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since November 2006 has today been freed from prison after all the charges against her and her nine co-defendants were dropped.

In an indication of increasing government control of the Eritrean Orthodox Church (EOC), a renegade bishop has been declared its new Patriarch 16 months after the ordained pontiff was illegally removed from office.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) hosted a delegation of activists for India's Dalit (formerly ‘untouchable') people from 19-28 March, to raise the issue of caste-based slavery faced by millions of Dalits, in numerous forums in London and Brussels.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is pleased to be hosting the launch event of a new documentary film by Michael Lawson.

A pastor was shot dead by Sri Lankan security forces on 13 January in Jaffna, according to a report from the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL).

A resolution on Burma proposed by the United States and supported by the United Kingdom was vetoed on Friday 12 January by China and Russia.

CSW is dismayed to learn that the beheaded and dismembered body of Father Boulos Iskander, 59, a Syrian Orthodox priest, was found in a suburb of Mosul on Wednesday night.

At least ten churches were set alight and Christian homes and businesses were looted on Tuesday 19 September, during rioting in Dutse, the capital of Jigawa State in Northern Nigeria.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is deeply saddened that the Indonesian authorities executed three Catholic Christians last night, despite an international campaign calling for clemency, and urges the Indonesian authorities to act quickly to stem further violence.

Deborah Xu, one of the foremost female Chinese Christian preachers, has extended her visit to the UK until 24 September 2006.

Three Christian schoolgirls were attacked with machetes and beheaded on their way to school on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Two bills which would severely limit evangelism and conversion to the Christian faith are before the Sri Lankan parliament.

The Head of the Eritrean government delegation at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva announced on April 5 that Eritrea had granted official recognition to the Seventh Day Adventist Church.