Originally published in Morning Star News Soldiers and security personnel failed to intervene this month as Fulani herdsmen killed 70 Christians in one area of Plateau state, Nigeria, while in other areas soldiers helped herdsmen destroy farmland, Christian leaders said. Muslim Fulanis killed 70 Christians, displaced 30 000 others and […]
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1 500 Christians killed in Nigeria in first four months of this year
Originally published in Christian Today A staggering 1 470 Christians were killed by Islamist jihadists in Nigeria in the first four months of 2021, a non-profit in the country has said. The claim came in a report by the Intersociety for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law, which said that another 2 […]
Militants in Nigeria use national lockdown as cover to launch deadly attacks on Christians
Compiled from reports in Barnabas Aid and International Christian Concern. Nineteen people were killed by Fulani militants in attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria early this month and at least eight people died in a Boko Haram attack near Auno village in Borno State on April 12. In one Plateau State […]
Christian Nigerian teen escapes captors after being forced to convert to Islam
Originally published in The Christian Post. A Nigerian Christian girl, who was abducted in January and forced to convert to Islam, has finally been reunited with her family in the country’s northcentral Kaduna state. The Hausa Christians Foundation (HCF) told the independent daily newspaper, Vanguard, that Sadiya Amos has escaped […]