Islamic extremists kidnapped 140 students from the Bethel Baptist High School in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Monday, International Christian Concern reports. Islamic terrorists are estimated to have abducted 1000 students from schools across Nigeria since the end of last year.
...continue reading this storyGunmen kidnapped more than 80 students and killed a policeman in a raid on a school in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kebbi, residents said.
...continue reading this storyBoko Haram Islamic terrorists in Nigeria’s Plateau State have released a Christian pastor they abducted last year, Our Nigeria reports. The release of Reverend Polycarp Zango is a flicker of light in a country that was recently described by US officials as a “killing field for Christians.”
...continue reading this storyThe leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, whose group killed or kidnapped thousands of Christians, has committed suicide, rival Islamist militants say.
...continue reading this storyIslamic Fulani herdsmen are reported to have murdered a further 36 Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state, as repeated warnings about a Christian genocide taking place in the West African country appear to be of no avail, International Christian Concern reports.
...continue reading this storyA church planter and his 3-year old son were murdered by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria’s Niger state on May 21, International Christian Concern reports. Leviticus Makpa, 39, and his little boy Godsend are among the latest murder victims in a country which Gary L. Bauer of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom described in April as a “killing field” for Christians.
...continue reading this storyNigeria is a “killing field” of Christians, and is headed toward Christian genocide, Commissioner Gary L. Bauer says in the Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) 2021 annual report, ICC reported. Islamic militants are primarily responsible for killing 1,470 Christians in Nigeria in the first four months of this year alone.
...continue reading this storyChristians worldwide demand the release of a young woman held captive for more than three years by Islamic militants in Nigeria because she refuses to renounce her faith in Christ.
...continue reading this storyIslamic militants have attacked a church in Niger’s turbulent Tillabéri, Niger region, leaving five people dead and two seriously injured, an aid group said Tuesday.
...continue reading this storyThe large-scale, years-long onslaught of killing and kidnapping of Christians in Nigeria by Muslim extremists continues unabated and under-reported: a further 1470 Christians were murdered, and 2200 abducted, by Islamic Jihadists in the first four months of 2021 alone, the Intersociety for Civil Liberty and Rule of Law has attested in a new report. This time last year, the Nigerian Voice reported that Islamic militants had butchered 32,000 Christians since 2009; that number is now much higher.
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