The United Nations, European Union, and United States in recent days conferred diplomatic backing to Azerbaijan’s claim to Armenia’s Christian continuity as its own. Photographed laughing and dancing steps from razed Armenian churches and homes, an Azerbaijani state guided tour of the emptied Armenian heartland makes a mockery of international resolutions and commitments to religious freedom.

In a farming community in Nigeria, Christian survivors of a 2010 massacre by Islamist terrorists that killed more than 500 people have spent 16 years caring for the sole Muslim resident. He stayed after the killings drove everyone else of his faith from the area.

A local partner of CSI has delivered aid to flood victims in one of the areas most severely affected by the disaster.

CSI and partner NGOs warn that the Septembre Musical Montreux-Vevey festival on September 14 risks aiding and abetting Azerbaijan’s ongoing campaign of destruction of Armenian culture and history.