Zenger | Lawrence Zongo | April 3 , 2020 Armed hordes of Muslim militants rampaged through villages in central Nigeria this week, killing unarmed farmers and burning people alive in their houses. In…
J Town | March 26, 2020 Gunmen, suspected to be herdmen, killed five people in two separate attacks in Kwal district, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State, on Tuesday…
International Christian Concern | March 25, 2020 Prof. Solomon Tarfa and his wife Mercy, founded an orphanage called Du Merci in 1996 in Kano State, Nigeria. The home has helped…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
National Pivot | Joe Adams | January 27, 2020 Nathan Sharibu, father of the abducted teenage Christian girl, Leah, said he had received the news of his daughter’s reported motherhood…
Punch Nigeria | Sodiq Oyeleke | Jan. 24, 2020 The Federal Government and South-West governors have agreed that Operation Amotekun should be structured to align with the community policing strategy…
Christian Today | January 22, 2020 Last year, the Bishop of Truro published a monumental review into the persecution of Christians. The findings were stark: anti-Christian persecution is spreading and increasing in severity…
CP | Samuel Smith | January 21, 2020 A pastor who made headlines earlier this month for praising God in a ransom video has been executed by Boko Haram militants…
Christian Post | Samuel Smith | Jan. 21, 2020 the Rev. Lawan Andimi | YouTube/Melodyinter World/Screengrab A pastor who made headlines earlier this month for praising God in a ransom…
News Express Nigeria | Gyang Bere, Jos | Jan. 20, 2020 Leah Sharibu, ISWAP captive from Dapchi A 26-year-old medical aid worker working with Alliance For International Medical Action, Jennifer…
The Guardian | Timileyin Omilana | Jan. 21, 2020 Boko Haram insurgents have killed the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Lawan Andimi, in Michika local government area…
Agenzia Fides | January 20, 2020 "No other Country will tolerate this type of insecurity without calling for mass protests. Definitely our country is under siege", said His Exc. Mgr.…
Morning Star News | January 20, 2020 Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed two young Christian women in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, on Friday (Jan. 17), sources said. The herdsmen on motorbikes…
News Express | Gyang Bere | January 20, 2020 A 26-year-old medical aid worker working with Alliance For International Medical Action, Jennifer Ukambong Samuel, who regained freedom from the Boko…
Morning Star News | Jan. 20, 2020 JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed two young Christian women in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria, on Friday (Jan. 17),…
Agency Fides | Jan. 20, 2020 Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "No other Country will tolerate this type of insecurity without calling for mass protests. Definitely our country is under siege",…