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Originally published in Morning Star News. See also: https://gatewaynews.co.za/new-findings-challenge-no-christian-genocide-in-nigeria-narrative-reveal-targeted-cruelty-against-church/ Three weeks after the kidnapping of Scripture Union Nigeria’s national general director in southeast Nigeria, he and seven other fellowship leaders remain missing, according to reports. Gunmen abducted Uwem Cosmos and the seven others on June 14 as they were returning […]
Originally published in The Roys Report Armed Muslim bandits attacked Ejiba, a community in Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi state in central Nigeria, on Sunday morning, abducting a pastor, his wife, and several worshippers during a church service. The incident occurred at a newly established Cherubim and Seraphim Church, […]
After being abducted by an offshoot of Boko Haram in Nigeria six years ago, a Christian nurse describes her daring escape and how faith kept her alive. Originally published in The New York Times For more than six years, Alice Loksha Ngaddah bided her time, waiting for an opportunity to […]
Originally published by Release International Earlier this year, a report by UK parliamentarians heard that almost 90% of all the Christians kidnapped worldwide are abducted in Nigeria. According to the charity Aid to the Church in Need 5 200 Christians were kidnapped in Nigeria between January 2021 and June 2022. […]
Originally published in Voice of the Martyrs In the early hours ofJuly 5 gunmen invaded Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria, and kidnapped an estimated 121 students. On Sunday, the kidnappers released 10 of the students, leaving the remaining students in captivity. […]
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, […]
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 […]