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Compiled from a report in PM News and agency reports At least 22 people were killed in a series of blasts targeting buses full of passengers in a Christian section of Nigeria’s second largest city of Kano, yesterday. And sources close to the attack by two suicide bombers say the […]
By Obed Minchakpu — Originally published in Charisma News Some Christian survivors of attacks by members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Monday, Feb. 4, in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, recounted how 17 Christians were murdered in cold blood by Boko Haram Islamists and how they survived the […]
Originally published in Mission Network News Boko Haram, the Islamist group responsible for numerous deadly attacks on Christians and churches in northern Nigeria, has finally clarified the question of a ceasefire: according to them, there isn’t one. The BBC reported that Residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital (and stronghold […]
Originally published in Mission Network News After three years of incessant attacks on places of worship and other public places, Nigeria’s Boko Haram sect has called a truce. The price of the ceasefire: freedom for the arrested members of the group and the rebuilding of the destroyed mosque of its […]
Islamic terrorists suspected to be from the Boko Haram group have launched another wave of attacks in Nigeria, killing at least 23 people who they deemed to have been breaking Sharia Law. The two separate attacks occurred on Monday and Tuesday in north-east Nigeria, and targeted people selling pork, which […]
Originally published in Charisma News On December 1, a group of Islamic radicals raided the village of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria. The group of radicals, armed with guns, machetes and explosives, moved through the predominately Christian part of the village and began chanting “Allahu Akbar,” meaning “god is greatest.” They […]
Originally published in Charisma News At least 10 Christians, including one pastor, were allegedly killed by suspected Islamist fighters connected to the extremist group Boko Haram in an overnight attack on the village of Chibok located in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, International Christian Concern reports. In a separate attack, […]
Originally published in Baptist Press / Open Doors News New details from Open Doors News reconfirm earlier reports that Christians were the focus of an Oct. 1 massacre of 29 students in Mubi, Nigeria. Jerry Dykstra, media relations director for Open Doors, said post-massacre follow-up by Open Doors workers at […]
By Compass Direct News Suspected Islamic extremists bombed three churches in Kaduna state yesterday morning, the third consecutive Sunday that worship services in Nigeria have ended in lethal bloodshed. In a predominantly Christian area of Zaria known as Wusasa, a suspected Islamic extremist crashed a car into a barricade at […]
Originally published in Aina Suppose that there was a country where Muslims were being massacred every month and mosques and imams were being targeted and destroyed. Could anyone imagine the Obama Administration choosing to remain silent in the face of such atrocities? A mob attack on Muslims in Burma immediately […]