NIGERIA – Catholic Priest Saved by Neighbors in Kasuwan Magani
Aug. 5, 2019 | War Desk News By Reuben Buhari (Kasuwan Magani, Nigeria) Terrorists armed with assault rifles attempted to assassinate a popular Catholic priest here but were beaten back…
NIGERIA – Christian rights groups urge caution in response to reports of Leah Sharibu’s death
Christian Today | Aug. 5, 2019 Christian human rights organisations are continuing to hope that a teenager being held by a faction of the Boko Haram terrorist group is still…
NIGERIA – Report: Nigeria Christian Genocide a ‘Global Security Nightmare’
Aug. 4, 2019 | Breitbart | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. ROME — The ongoing slaughter of Nigerian Christians by Muslim herders and terrorists is a powder keg waiting to explode,…
NIGERIA – Anti-Christian carnage in Nigeria could be global security nightmare
Aug. 4, 2019 | CRUX | John Allen ROME - Back in the late 1970s, James Wuye was a young Nigerian and fervent Christian believer, who converted to Catholicism and…
UGANDA – Uganda listed among top 10 countries where converts to Christianity face hostility
Aug. 3, 2019 | Uganda Christian News | By Male Marvin Uganda has been ranked among the top 10 countries in the world where people are experiencing the highest levels…
NIGERIA – Leah Sharibu: Nigerian US based journalist slams Buhari
Aug. 2, 2019 | The Sun Nigeria ...Says President insensitive to nation's security challenges Magna Faith Krimi in African fabrics and Isha Isatu Sesay A Nigerian diaspora leader and media…
RELEASE: Call for ‘Measured Response’ to Unconfirmed Reports of Leah Sharibu’s Death
***NEWS RELEASE*** For Immediate Release | July 29, 2019 CONTACT: Hamilton Strategies, Media@HamiltonStrategies.com Save the Persecuted Christians, Leah Foundation and International Committee on Nigeria doubt the report WASHINGTON—Disturbing reports over…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians, Leah Foundation and International Committee on Nigeria Call for ‘Measured Response’ to Unconfirmed Reports of Leah Sharibu’s Death
July 29, 2019 | For Immediate Release Dr. Gloria Puldu, info@leah-foundation.org WASHINGTON—Disturbing reports over the weekend claimed kidnapped Christian Nigeria schoolgirl Leah Sharibu has been killed in captivity. But those…
NIGERIA – Nigeria Militants Attack Mourners, Killing at Least 65, Officials Say
NYTimes | Reuters | July 28, 2019 At least 65 people died in an attack by suspected Islamist extremists on a group returning from a funeral in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno…
NIGERIA – Nigeria’s Leaders Allowing Christian Genocide
July 26, 2019 | Church Militant ABUJA, Nigeria (ChurchMilitant.com) - While international human rights groups are warning of "genocidal" persecution of Nigeria's Christians, Nigeria's Abp. Ignatius Kaigama wants government leaders to stop the violence. Persecution of…
NIGERIA – ‘His Cemetery Was Full of Victims’: Group Helps Americans ‘Adopt’ Persecuted Christians in Nigeria
July 26, 2019 | CBN | Mark Martin Leaders with "Save the Persecuted Christians" are on a mission to help Americans "adopt" persecuted Christians in war-torn Nigeria – by praying…
SOMALIA – At least 6 killed, mayor wounded in suicide bombing in Somalia’s capital
CNN | Omar Nor and Nicole Chavez | July 24, 2019 Medical workers help a civilian who was wounded in a suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday. (CNN)The mayor…
NIGERIA – RUGA “indirect Jihad”, says Anglican bishop
Warns South East governors to reject policy in zone The Anglican Bishop of Egbu Diocese in Owerri North, Most Revd Geoffrey Okoroafor has warned South East governors never to accept…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians’ Moving Exhibits Part of Second Annual ‘Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom’
July 15, 2019 | ***NEWS RELEASE*** | For Immediate Release STPC Leaders Will Attend and Lead Sessions at Historic Gathering July 16-18 WASHINGTON—Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC), which advocates on…
Burkina Faso – All 4 wore crosses—new Burkina Faso attack leaves believers dead
They had just gathered to share stories and the happenings of the day—like West African communities often do in the evenings–when strangers entered their village in northern Burkina Faso. Before the…
MALI – ‘At least 100’ Christians incinerated in ‘well-targeted attack’
Believers surrounded and 'everything that moved' set afire At least 100 men, women and children have been incinerated in a “well-targeted attack” on Christians by jihadists in central Mali, according…
NIGERIA – Nigerian Christians plead for U.S. help in face of religiously driven violence
The horror that enveloped Rebecca Sharibu’s world in early 2018 when her 14-year-old daughter, Leah, was kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria felt like it might suddenly end when news broke, after…
NIGERIA – Nigerian Christians plead for U.S. help in face of religiously driven violence
Washington Times | Guy Taylor | July 7, 2019 The horror that enveloped Rebecca Sharibu’s world in early 2018 when her 14-year-old daughter, Leah, was kidnapped by Boko Haram militants…
NIGERIA – Obasanjo gives reasons why War may soon break out in Nigeria
July 2, 2019 | Opera News Chief Olusegun Obasanjo By Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Former President of Federal Republic of Nigeria. Another civil war in Nigeria has become imminent and inevitable.…
NIGERIA/USA – 3 Nigerian Women Beg for US to Help Stop Persecution of Christians
https://youtu.be/PEdLplf5rcA The Stream | Carmel Kookogey | July 2, 2019 | Video at The Stream After 110 Nigerian girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in February 2018, all but…
NIGERIA – In Asbury Sermon, Nigerian Pastor Warns of Church’s “Difficult Task” Amidst Persecution
Pastor Samuel Odubena recently gave a sermon at Asbury Seminary Chapel in which he spoke about how Christians in the West ought to react to persecution. Odubena is an Anglican priest from Nigeria where…
NIGERIA – Nigerian Government Writes British Parliamentary Group, Denies Persecution Of Christians
The Nigerian Government has repudiated claims by a group styling itself as Northern Christian Elders Forum, who falsely alleged that the Muhammadu Buhari administration is practicing bigotry and alienating Christians.…
ADVISORY – Nigeria Crisis Delegation Truthsquads Nigerian Vice President’s ‘Come-to-Jesus’ Meeting with Mike Pence
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** | June 26, 2019 Courageous Victims of Jihadist Violence Challenge the False, but Official ‘Farmers-vs.-Herdsmen’ Narratives of the Nigerian Government and the U.S. State Department WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, June…
NIGERIA – Nigeria: Christian teen girl remains in Boko Haram captivity for refusing to deny Jesus Christ
“16-year-old Leah Sharibu, a Christian girl from the town of Dapchi, Nigeria, remains in the monstrous hands of the Islamic terror group Boko Haram – which keeps Leah in its…
NIGERIA – Jesus Appears to Entire Group of 72 Christians About to be Killed
The Incredible Miracle That Followed is Right Out of the Acts of the Apostles Breaking Christian News | June 24, 2019 But BarnabasAid says God intervened in power to save…
MALI – 95 Christians killed in Mali attack—‘No one was spared’
Continue to pray with Christians in West Africa’s Sahel region (which includes Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger). An attack in Mali has killed an estimated 95 people, including men, women and children—a…
NIGERIA – Christian Teen’s Contagious Courageous Stand, a ‘Hostage for Life’ for Refusing to Deny Jesus
CBN News | John Jessup | June 19, 2019 WASHINGTON – Until this week, Rebecca Sharibu never set foot outside of her village in northern Nigeria. Helpless and heartbroken, she…
RELEASE – Save the Persecuted Christians Hosts Rebecca Sharibu, Mom of Leah, a Kidnapped Schoolgirl, in D.C. This Week
***NEWS RELEASE*** | June 18, 2019 Mother of Boko Haram Captive Pleads with U.S. Government to Help Free Her 16-Year-Old Daughter; Millions of Nigerian Children Like Leah Are Terrified to…
NIGERIA – Tony Perkins, Leah Sharibu and the Saving of Every Nigerian Christian
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Yesterday, one of the most consequential men in public life, my friend Tony Perkins, was elected to chair the vital U.S.…
ETHIOPIA – Ethiopia: Pressure on churches building with evangelical church told to vacate after ten years
An evangelical church in central Ethiopia has been ordered to vacate its building, 10 years after it started meeting there, and churches elsewhere in the region say pressure is increasing…
NIGER – Muslim Mob Burns Christian Church
A mob of Muslim activists ransacked and set fire to a Christian church in Niger this weekend to protest the arrest of an influential imam. On Saturday night, a large…
NIGERIA – Nigeria’s Christian community slowly being erased as militants step up vicious killings, kidnappings
Leah has been held captive by Boko Haram in Nigeria since early 2018 for refusing to renounce her Christian faith(Save the Persecuted Christians) It has been almost 18 long and…
NIGERIA – BREAKING: Boko Haram suicide bombers kill 20 football fans in Borno, injure 30
Boko Haram suicide bombers have detonated their explosives at a viewing centre in Konduga, Borno state, killing 20 people with about 30 critically injured. A military source who confirmed the…
NIGERIA – Eight million out-of-school children in 10 Nigerian states and Abuja – UNICEF
Children hawking on the street used to tell the story. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said 10 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have eight million out-of-school…
NIGERIA – Nigerians describe horrors of Fulani atrocities: ‘There is a genocide going on’
Alheri Magaji (L) speaks about the plight of the Adara community in Kaduna, Nigeria, during an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. on June 11, 2019. | The Christian…
NIGERIA – AN ECUMENISM OF BLOOD: BOKO HARAM AND THE CHRISTIAN MARTYRS OF NIGERIA
Over the last thirty years, Nigeria has been plagued with numerous terrorist upheavals that have sometimes bordered on the apocalypse, of which Boko Haram is one. While key attention has…
VIDEO – The Uncomfortable Truth of Genocide in Nigeria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBQmQ5lp3sU&t=26shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnB-ozr3GNM&feature=youtu.be Witnesses to Violence Denounce the Fiction of a Farmer-Herdsmen Narrative ***ADVISORY*** FACEBOOK LIVESTREAM For Immediate Release | June 12, 2019 Briefing Today 2200 Rayburn HOB 2:30 p.m. Members are…
NIGERIA – Nigerians describe horrors of Fulani atrocities: ‘There is a genocide going on’
WASHINGTON — Nigerians from predominantly Christian tribes in Nigeria visited the United States this week to share how their tribes are now “homeless” and “sleeping under the skies” after recent…
NIGERIA – Nigerian ‘genocide’: Unborn babies ‘slaughtered like chickens,’ entire tribes left homeless
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | June 11, 2019 WASHINGTON — Nigerians from predominantly Christian tribes in Nigeria visited the United States this week to share how their tribes are…
VIDEO – Mother of Leah Sharibu, “Slave for Life” for Not Renouncing Christianity, on June 11 Panel to Discuss Terrorist Violence In Nigeria
https://youtu.be/KYnRZ8TEHhw?t=210 June 10, 2019 | MEDIA ADVISORY Save the Persecuted Christians and Heritage Foundation Event ‘Insecurity in Nigeria: The Victims Speak’ Will Expose Violence in Nigeria That Has Devolved into…