AFRICA – Religious persecution focus shifts to Africa
The Catholic Register | Michael Swan | June 25, 2020 Aid to the Church in Need and its 330,000 donors world-wide are responding to the changing world of religious persecution.…
NIGERIA – Boko Haram/ISWAP recruiting in Lake Chad region, says MNJTF
The Guardian | Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri | April 28, 2020 The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has raised the alarm on Boko Haram/Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists’ recruitment…
NIGER – Missionary abducted in Niger shown alive in video released by jihadists
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | April 14, 2020 A Catholic missionary priest who was abducted in Niger in 2018 is still alive, according to a proof-of-life video released last…
AFRICA – Christians threatened as Islamists push for control of Africa’s Sahel
National Catholic Reporter | Jonathan Luxmoore | April 13, 2020 As the coronavirus threatens new social and economic dislocations across Africa, it will be but one more complication in the…
NIGERIA – Nigerian archbishop: Seminarian’s killing shows government’s security failure
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…
NIGERIA – ISWAP release five kidnapped aid workers
ABN | Victor Okoroafor | January 16, 2020 Islamic State-aligned jihadists have released five local aid workers abducted last month in Borno State, security sources and one of those freed…
USA – U.S. to Ramp Up Counterterrorism Efforts in Sahel Region
FP | Robbie Gramer | December 20, 2020 The Trump administration is preparing to create a new special envoy position and task force to deal with security threats in the…
AFRICA – Terrorist Attacks Increase in Africa’s Sahel, U.S. Warns
The Wall Street Journal | Jessica Donati and Courtney McBride | Nov. 1, 2019 WASHINGTON—Africa’s Sahel region is emerging as a new frontier in the fight against terrorist groups, according…
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…
NIGER – Boko Haram Kidnapped 15 Girls from Niger
International Christian Concern | Nov. 30, 2018 Boko Haram has continued it reign of terror in Northeastern Nigeria and the lake chad regions of Cameroon and Niger. Late last week,…
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA – 270 Slaughtered by ‘Irrelevant’ ISIS in Recent Days
Clarion Project | Nov. 25, 2018 Proving to the world it is anything but irrelevant, ISIS in recent days reportedly mounted attacks in Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Libya and…
NIGER – Christians and Aid Workers in Niger Mark Second Anniversary of Jeff Woodke’s Disappearance
International Christian Concern | Nov. 14, 2018 Two years ago Jeff Woodke, an American Christian aid worker, disappeared from his home in Abalak, Niger. The 57-year-old worked for Jeunesse en…
NIGER- Anti-FGM Priest Kidnapped
Clarion Project | Oct. 11, 2018 An anti-FGM (female genital mutilation) Catholic priest was kidnapped by suspected jihadi terrorists in Niger for educating women and girls against the brutal practice. Local sources say…
NIGER – Abduction of Italian priest shocks Niger
World Watch Monitor | Sept. 20, 2018 Fr. Pier Luigi Maccalli (Photo: Eglise Catholique au Niger) In Niger, the abduction of an Italian priest in the southwest of the country…
NIGER – Jeff Woodke’s wife releases third video plea for news of her husband
World Watch Monitor | 062918 The wife of an American missionary abducted 20 months ago in Africa’s Sahel region has put out a new video pleading for his safe return.…