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By Obed Minchakpu — Compass Direct News JOS, Nigeria – Two suicide bombers from the Boko Haram Islamist sect drove a car laden with bombs into the worship service of a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregation here yesterday morning, killing at least one Christian girl and injuring dozens of […]
By Obed Minchakpu — Compass News Direct SULEJA, Nigeria – Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building here on Sunday (February 19), two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla. Sunday’s blast in Suleja, […]
Originally published in Reuters.Com Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said todayo, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos. A coordinated series of bomb […]
By Obed Minchakpu — Compass Direct News Fulani Muslim herdsmen along with Muslim soldiers have killed at least 45 ethnic Berom Christians in Plateau state in the past week, Christians in this northern-central Nigerian town said. Smaller attacks beginning on November. 20, reportedly over allegations by Fulani Muslims of cattle […]
Report from Day 1 — By Chris Sugden The Divine Commonwealth Conference (see website), the first of its kind in the Church of Nigeria is being held in the National Christian Centre in Abuja. It was opened on Monday night by Archbishop Nicholas Okoh and is being attended by 5 […]
Originally published in Christian Post A series of bombs attacks have hit numerous targets, including churches, in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damaturu, killing 63 people. Christians are among the scores of people killed as churches were blasted, and the Yobe state police HQ was also among the targets hit. […]
By Obed Minchakpu — Compass Direct News Violence-weary Christians in Borno state have been further upset to learn of the murder of a Nigerian evangelist by Boko Haram less than three months after the Islamic extremist group killed a Maiduguri pastor. Already shell-shocked from attacks by Boko Haram, which was […]
By Obed Minchakpu — Compass Direct News A rash of attacks by armed Muslim extremists on villages in Nigeria’s Plateau state in the past month have left more than 100 Christians dead, including the elimination of entire families, sources said. In a guerilla-type “hit and run” attack on the Christian […]
By Obed Minchakpu, Compass Direct News Muslim extremists with the alleged help of Nigerian army personnel killed 24 Christians this month in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, area sources said. The attacks started August11 in Ratsa Foron village, where assaults that day and on August 15 left six Christians dead; also […]
Originally published in Charisma News International Christian Concern has learned that members of a radical Islamic group, Boko Haram, killed at least 10 Christians in Maiduguri, Nigeria over the past two months in what a Christian leader is calling a “silent killing” of Christians. In an interview with ICC, an […]