World Watch Monitor | Julia Bicknell | March 25, 2020 Sadiya Amos, aged 17, went missing from north central Kaduna in northern Nigeria on the night of 5th January. On…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | March 24, 2020 The wife an Anglican bishop and a church secretary have regained their freedom just over a week after they were kidnapped…
Zenger | Lawrence Zongo | March 23, 2020 The five men with machetes were cornered in the dark amid a stand of bushes near the village where they had come…
Save the Persecuted Christians | March 18, 2020 Coalition Partner, International Committee on Nigeria, Launches #SilentSlaughter Campaign WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC) joined the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON) at…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | March 17, 2020 A Nigerian Christian girl who was abducted in January and forced to convert to Islam has finally been reunited with her…
Christian Post | Anugrah Kumar | March 15, 2020 In yet another assault on Christians in north-eastern Kenya, suspected militants from the Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab killed two people and abducted another…
Crux | Christopher White | March 13,2020 Western nations have an obligation to defend Nigerian Christians being slaughtered by Boko Haram since many are being killed because the militant group…
International Christian Concern | March 13, 2020 International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Wednesday, March 11, two Christians were killed and another was abducted when suspected al-Shabaab militants…
Washington Times | Madison Hirneisen | March 11, 2020 International activists are sounding the alarm over what they say is the pervasive and violent persecution of Christians in Nigeria, Africa’s most…
Nkiruka Nistoran | March 10, 2020 Upwards of 12,000 Christians have been killed under since President Muhammadu Buhari took office in Nigeria on May 29, 2015 while over 2,000 churches have…
CSF | Fr. David Echioda | March 3, 2020 A Nigerian priest who was kidnapped after offering Sunday Mass March 1 has been freed, his diocese has reported. “I have…
CP | Anugrah Kumar | March 2, 2020 The Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab has “ordered” Christians to leave three counties in northeastern Kenya to allow local Muslims to get all local…
Barnabas Fund | February 28, 2020 Four Nigerian church elders held a Sunday service in their burnt out church building on 23 February, two days after Boko Haram militants abducted…
CNA | Christine Rousselle | February 28, 2020 U.S. Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback has warned that religious persecution is spreading worldwide, and highlighted the examples of…
Defence Web | February 28, 2020 Islamist militant groups in Nigeria have begun targeting Christians in an attempt to provoke a religious war, the information minister said on Thursday. Islamist…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | February 28, 2020 American faith leaders met with representatives of Nigerian communities devastated by Boko Haram and Fulani tribesmen as well as key figures…
NCR | Frank Wolf and Toufic Baaklini | February 26, 2020 Just recently, we commemorated the fifth anniversary of the deaths of the 21 Coptic martyrs of Libya. These brave men…
CBN | February 24, 2020 More than 100 members of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram attacked the town of Garkida in Gombi area of the northeastern state of Adamawa,…
CP | Anugrah Kumar | February 23, 2020 More than 100 Boko Haram militants opened fire sporadically and indiscriminately and set churches and houses on fire, killing many people, in…
The Cable | February 21, 2020 A source told TheCable that the insurgents broke into the town around 7pm on Friday, shooting sporadically. Soldiers who were said to have engaged…
The Guardian | Timileyin Omilana | February 20, 2020 The mother of the abducted Nigerian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu Thursday met with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in London. Rebecca…
CP | Samuel Smith | February 19 2020 Wednesday marks two years since Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu was abducted along with 109 of her classmates from her school in northeast…
Release | Save the Persecuted Christians | Feb. 19, 2020 Save the Persecuted Christians Keeps Close Watch on Plight of Kidnapped Nigerian Teen, Kept by Boko Haram for Not Renouncing…
CP | Samuel Smith | February 18, 2020 The Nigerian military has been accused by a leading human rights watchdog of razing villages and displacing hundreds of residents in its…
National Catholic Register | February 18, 2020 The Nigerian priest who was abducted by gunmen last week has been released. Fr. Nicholas Oboh was kidnapped last week in the southwest…
The Guardian | Agence France-Presse in Ouagadougou | February 17, 2020 Gunmen have killed 24 people and wounded 18 in an attack on a Protestant church in a village in…
Nigerian Tribune | February 11, 2020 We have gathered around the remains of Michael in supplication but also as solemn witnesses to the penetrating darkness that hovers over our country.…
For Immediate Release | Save the Persecuted Christians | February 7, 2020 SRO Audience at National Prayer Breakfast Prays for Victims, Truth-Tellers WASHINGTON, D.C.—Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC),a growing grassroots…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pft5K19o2OA&feature=youtu.be A NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST SIDE EVENT “Why is the world silent while Christians are being slaughtered? Good people must join together and stop this…It’s not as if we are…
CP | Samuel Smith | February 5, 2020 The governor of the Boko Haram-infected Borno state in northeast Nigeria has reportedly revealed that the extremist group is responsible for making…
Angelus | February 4, 2020 Following the death of an 18-year-old seminarian in Nigeria at the hands of his kidnappers, the Archbishop of Lagos urged government officials to make changes…
Feed News | February 2, 2020 At about 8am today In the Living Faith Church in Sabo,Kaduna State, suicide bomber was caught trying to make his way into his the…
Vatican News | February 2, 2020 Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) announces the death of the last of four seminarians kidnapped on January 8th in Nigeria’s Kaduna State.…
CBS News | Camilo Montoya-Galvez | January 31, 2020 The Trump administration on Friday unveiled a new set of immigration restrictions on six African and Asian countries, expanding the so-called…
Juicy Ecumenism | Faith McDonnell | January 30, 2020 Persecution of Christians in Nigeria is not a new thing. Attacks on churches, imposition of Sharia, killings of individuals – even…
Daily Post | Amos Tauna | January 30, 2020 Fulani and community leaders from Mangu, Bokkos, Barkin Ladi and Riyom local government areas of Plateau State have been arrested by…
Hungary Today | January 30, 2020 Speaking to MTI by phone, Balázs Orbán said he had completed a three-day official visit to the eastern African country on Wednesday. The aid…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | January 28, 2020 The family of abducted Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has spoken out after reports published over the weekend suggested that their…
January 27, 2020 | Statement Save the Persecuted Christians: Family Begs to Have Leah Returned Alive WASHINGTON—Reports surfaced over the weekend that kidnapped Nigerian teen Leah Sharibu has a newborn…
News Express | 27 January 2020 Benue Governor Samuel Ortom said herdsmen shot at him while he was in his farm located along Makurdi – Naka road in Makurdi, Benue state…