Originally published in Voice of the Martyrs After more than eight years in captivity, two of the girls kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, have managed to gain their freedom. Hauwa Joseph and Mary Douda were among the more than 270 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists […]
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Mary Katambi: No kidnapper could steal her dreams
Originally published in Christian Today One of 276 girls abducted from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria by the infamous Boko Haram has just graduated from university – the very thing her kidnappers fought to oppose. “Boko Haram roughly translates as ‘western education is forbidden’,” says Open Doors UK & […]
121 Christian students kidnapped in latest terror attack in northern Nigeria state
Compiled from reports in CBN News, Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin and CSW 121 students were kidnapped in the early hours of Monday morning by a large group of armed Fulani bandits who stormed the boarding hostel of the Bethel Baptist High School in Nigeria’s northern state of Kaduna. According to […]
Human rights advocates sound alarm on ‘Christian genocide’ unfolding in Africa
By George Thomas — Originally published in CBN News Muslim terror groups are launching attacks across several African nations. Foremost is Nigeria, where tens of thousands of Christians have died as part of what human rights activists call a Christian genocide across the continent. Nigeria’s Army recently released a poster […]
Islamist militants kill, kidnap Christians in north-east Nigeria
Originally published in Morning Star News Islamic extremist militants in northeast Nigeria attacked a predominantly Christian village near Chibok, Borno state on Sunday morning (November 1), killing 12 Christians and kidnapping women and children, sources said. In Takulashi, less than 10 miles from Chibok, where Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped 276 […]
Christians dying as corruption prolongs terrorist scourge in Nigeria — Elizabeth Kendal
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin — by Elizabeth Kendal Despite being resource-rich and having the largest economy in Africa, Nigeria has more people living in poverty than any other country on earth. To Nigeria’s shame, more than 102 million Nigerians live in poverty, which is more than twice the number in India […]
Boko Haram has killed more than Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined
By Julia Bicknell — Originally published in World Watch Monitor Nigerian Wanhena Sheku was working alone on her farm when a group she identified as Fulani herdsmen attacked her in mid-October, 2019. “They told me to place my left arm on a wooden log before they hacked my hand off. […]
Nigeria: Five executed as ‘warning to Christians’, 11 Christian villagers murdered
Islamic extremists have executed five Nigerian men in Borno state, with one executioner saying it was a warning to “all those being used by infidels to convert Muslims to Christianity,” in a video posted on Wednesday (July 22), reports Morning Star News On Monday (July 20) in Kaduna state, Fulani Militants […]
1 202 Nigerian Christians killed in first 6 months of 2020: NGO report
Originally published in The Christian Post A Nigerian civil society group estimates that 1 202 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in the first six months of 2020 by jihadists, radicalised herdsmen and others as 22 more Christians were reportedly killed in the Kaduna state last weekend. As rights groups […]
Nigerian Christians like sheep to the slaughter — Why It may be genocide
Originally published CBN News A new report out of the UK is sounding the alarm about the potential genocide of Christians in Nigeria. A coalition of British parliamentarians launched an extensive study into violence there and found that Islamist Fulani herdsman killed more than 1000 Christians last year and 6 […]