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Originally published in Christian Today Christians are among the 150 people killed in an “unprecedented” attack by Islamist terrorists in Burkina Faso. The attack happened last Friday when soldiers and civilians were digging defensive trenches to protect themselves in Barsalogho, central Burkina Faso, according to reports received by Catholic charity […]
Originally published in Persecution.org The Nigerian Air Force recently conducted airstrikes against extremist groups in the Lake Chad Basin including Boko Haram/Islamic States of West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Fulani militants. The Nigerian Air Force confirmed terrorist activities against civilians and “obliterated the terrorists’ hideouts and destroyed their structures and […]
Originally published in International Christian Concern Suspected al-Shabaab terrorists killed two people in Kenya on Tuesday and burned down 10 homes and a church. In a separate incident, the terrorists killed two motorists in an ambush on a local road. At 2am an International Christian Concern (ICC) staffer received a […]
Originally published in Persecution.Org Twenty Congolese Christians were killed and several others kidnapped after the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) struck the village of Kainama, Beni territory in Nord Kivu on the night of October 4. The bishop of the Beni Anglican Diocese confirmed the attack by the Islamist rebel group, […]
Originally published in CBN News Al-Shabaab militants are suspected of killing at least 13 people after their bus ran over an improvised explosive device while traveling near the Kenya-Somalia border. Kenyan police in northeast Mandera county say the vehicle was heading to a town in Mandera on Monday when it […]
Originally published by Agencia Fides “The abductions of school children present us with the prospects of a traumatised generation of young people,” says the Bishops of Nigeria of a scourge that has seen more than 1 000 students kidnapped from schools in northern Nigeria this year. In the latest abduction, […]
Originally published in CBN News Islamic terrorists are launching violent attacks against people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Central Africa as innocent men, women, and children are being killed almost daily. In the past month, more than 100 people were murdered, and a majority of them were […]
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 […]
A church pastor in Nigeria who went missing on Oct. 19 has been captured along with two Christian women by militants of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), according to a video released by the terrorist group. In the video clip uploaded on YouTube yesterday, the Rev Polycarp Zongo of the Church of […]
Originally published in CBN News An evangelical missionary from Switzerland who had been held as a captive by Islamic extremists in Mali since January of 2016, was killed by her kidnappers about a month ago, according to a fellow captive. Beatrice Stockli, 59, was shot and killed after she refused […]