Suspected Fulani terrorists in Nigeria’s Plateau state murdered eight Christians, including two children, in attacks on three villages in the last week of June, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
As Islamic terrorism continues to grip swathes of Nigeria, jihadist terrorists are threatening to execute a pastor and his wife whom they abducted in Borno state last year – unless their demands and hefty ransom are not met, Crosswalk reports.
Christians have appealed for prayers as a new video apparently posted by the Islamic Boko Haram group shows Nigerian Pastor Paul Musa wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling in front of a masked gunman, pleading for his life and that of his wife.
Nigerian authorities were investigating Monday a fire that destroyed the headquarters of one of the nation’s largest evangelical churches and that its controversial pastor blamed on the devil.
The bodies of three Christians, who were killed by Islamic fighters in northern Nigeria after being separated from other bus passengers, have been found, Christians said Thursday.
Christians were praying Monday for a Roman Catholic Church priest who they said had been kidnapped by armed Muslim “bandits” in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna.
Answering their leaders’ recent call to kill Christians “where you find them,” members of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) executed three Christian youths in Nigeria’s Borno state last week, Christian Today (CT) reports.
Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria are devastated after Fulani terrorists murdered an Assemblies of God pastor, his wife, and three other church members less than one week after Christian Irigwe and Muslim Fulani leaders met to discuss an end to the decades-long slaughter of believers by radicalized Islamic militants.
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.