In a rare victory against Islamic terrorists in northern Nigeria, the country’s military forces on Tuesday were able to rescue 350 hostages taken captive by the Boko Haram jihadist organization over a period of years, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Nine students who were abducted from Nigeria’s Confluence University of Science and Technology last week have all now been rescued, Reuters reports.
There has been an uptick in attacks on Christians in Nigeria by Fulani jihadist herdsmen, and on May 5, six people were boldly slaughtered in their homes during a raid on a predominantly Christian village in Kaduna state, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
The relentless murder of Christians in Nigeria is continuing, despite repeated warnings from rights groups, including the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, that Nigerian believers in Christ are facing genocide at the hands of Islamic terrorists.
Amid a spate of murderous attacks against Christians by Fulani jihadist herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau state, 12 mostly women and babies from a Christian farming community in Mangu County were slaughtered in their beds at 2 am on Apr. 19, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
A Christian pastor in Nigeria’s Kaduna state was ambushed and murdered by gunmen as he traveled to visit members of his church last month, Christian Daily reports.
Fulani Islamic herdsmen are continuing a protracted, exceedingly brutal, violent campaign to clear rural areas in Nigeria’s Benue state of Christians, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
A young mother and her baby were among 30 Christians murdered by Fulani Islamic herdsmen in Nigeria’s Plateau state this month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Christians in Plateau have been under relentless attack by Islamic Fulani terrorists as locals attest the Nigerian government has done nothing to prevent the violence.
On the 10th anniversary of the abduction by Boko Haram Islamic terrorists of 276 mostly Christian school girls in Chibok village, in northeastern Nigeria, 91 of the abductees remain missing, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
The United Church of Christ in Nigeria (UCCN) says one hostage died when suspected Islamic gunmen, known as “bandits,” released more than 50 church members after four months of captivity.
In yet another “brazen” murderous assault on Christian communities in Nigeria, Fulani jihadist herdsmen slaughtered seven people in attacks on villages in central Nigeria’s Benue state last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Well over sixty thousand Christians have been murdered by Islamic terrorists since Sharia law and jihadism took hold in swathes of north and central Nigeria in 2009.
While Nigeria’s Islamic government has turned a blind eye to the jihadists who murder and abduct thousands of Christians each year, a Nigerian court in Kaduna state has acquitted an evangelical pastor and his wife who were falsely accused and imprisoned on charges of kidnapping and proselytizing a 12-year-old girl, CBN News reports.
A Pentecostal congregation in southwestern Nigeria faced an uncertain Easter after gunmen raided the church and kidnapped two worshipers, Christians said Saturday.
As the slaughter of Christians by Islamic extremists in Nigeria continues unabated and with impunity, unidentified gunmen murdered six people, including a pastor, in Nasarawa state in the north of the country at the weekend, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
As Nigeria’s government turns a blind eye to the slaughter of tens of thousands of the nation’s Christians by Islamic jihadists, authorities in Katsina state are being sued for banning Christian groups from meeting and worshiping on two university campuses, Premier Christian News (PCN) reports.
The slaughter of Christians in Nigeria at the hands of Islamic jihadists is ongoing with impunity, and on Feb. 28, two more Christians were murdered and dozens kidnapped in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Islamic terrorists have murdered some 60,000 Nigerian Christians since jihadism took hold in the country in 2009.
Parents were praying and hoping their children were alive Friday after gunmen kidnapped more than 200 school pupils in northwestern Nigeria in the biggest mass abduction from a school in a decade.
Islamic terrorists murdered 23 people, including burning six alive, abducted five people, and set fire to 28 homes, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
A Nigerian evangelist who left Islam and accepted faith in Christ was recovering from his injuries in a “safe house” Saturday after he was freed on bail following beatings and nine days in prison for trumped-up charges, his supporters say.
Islamic jihadists slaughtered more than 8,000 Christians in Nigeria in 2023 alone, according to a new report by Nigerian human rights organization International Society for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law (Intersociety).