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(Photo: Unsplash/Ovinuchi Ejiohuo) Over 8,000 Christians were reportedly killed in Nigeria in 2023 amid a rise in attacks, abductions and killings in recent years, according to estimates included in a report released this week by a civil society organization. The Anambra-based International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), an organization headed by … Read more
Burial on Christmas Day, 2023, of Christians slain in NTV village, Plateau state, Nigeria. (Photo: Christian Daily News, Morning Star News) Religious freedom advocacy groups are criticizing the Biden administration for leaving Nigeria off the U.S. State Department list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom despite constant attacks and violence impacting Christian communities. … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Muhammadtaha Ibrahim Ma’aji) Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau State are living in fear of more attacks after devastating bloodshed over the Christmas period. The death toll from the massacre of Christians in the days leading up to Christmas has reached nearly 200 and more bodies are being discovered, according to Release International. Some 80 communities … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Samuel Martins) A Christian group is calling on Nigeria to do more to protect vulnerable Christian communities after a succession of reports all pointing to a growing kidnapping crisis in the country. Release International said that Christians are regarded as “soft targets for abduction” by Islamist militants, including Boko Haram, Islamic State (West Africa … Read more
College student Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu was stoned to death in Sokoto, Nigeria on May 12, 2022. (Photo: Morning Star News) The United Nations has written to the Nigerian government about its concern over the killing of a Christian student last year. Deborah Emmanuel was publicly lynched by a mob of Islamist extremists at her school … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Ovinuchi Ejiohuo) The house of a Catholic priest inside a parish was set ablaze in a suspected terrorist attack in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, resulting in the death of a young seminarian trapped in the fire, according to local reports. The incident occurred late last week at St. Rachael’s Parish in the Fadan Kamantan area, … Read more