Suspected Islamic gunmen interrupted a weekly worship service at a Protestant church in northern Burkina Faso, killing 24 people, authorities confirmed late Monday, February 17. Another 18 people were wounded in Sunday’s attack rocking Pansy town in Yagha province, the regional governor said.
...continue reading this storyChristian aid groups, along with pesticide-wielding UN troops, are deploying to eastern Africa to fight a locust swarm that experts say is the worst to hit the region in 70 years and could grow by 500 times between now and June.
...continue reading this storyA Nigerian professor-turned-politician claimed last week that Boko Haram has created nearly 120,000 orphans and widows since it began its onslaught against Christians in the West African nation.
...continue reading this storyBetween 10 and 50 people were killed in northern Burkina Faso Sunday, as a refugee crisis from Islamic attacks on the country's Christian population has already created 530,000 displaced persons in the West African country.
...continue reading this storyTwo Nigerian high school-aged Christian girls were killed in southern Kaduna state last week by Fulani herdsmen, an armed Muslim group, ahead of the killing of one of the biggest Christian leaders in Nigeria on Monday by Boko Haram.
...continue reading this storyIslamic State militants killed a Christian college student in Nigeria returning to his studies at the local university, posting a video of the execution online.
...continue reading this storyThe leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria, who has often spoken on behalf of Christians taken captive and slain at the hands of Muslims in the unfolding Nigerian genocide, was himself executed by ISIS-linked terrorist group Boko Haram on Tuesday after enduring almost a month of captivity.
...continue reading this storyIslamic radicals have killed 250 mostly Christian people in Burkina Faso since last April, a new report by Human Rights Watch gathered.
...continue reading this storyAl Shabaab extremists killed three Christian teachers in Kenya Monday, the attackers justifying the carnage by saying it was impermissible for 'infidels' to teach children.
...continue reading this storyMuslim Fulani herdsmen killed 13 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria on Wednesday, Jan. 8, adding to a body count that has seen scores of Christian farmers murdered by the pastoralists in the last few years.
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