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Nigerian president appeals for help in stopping Boko Haram
Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan calls the Nigerian-based Islamist terror group Boko Haram a threat to all of west, north and central Africa.
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Another church in Jos, Nigeria hit by suicide bombing
Two weeks after a suicide bomb attack by the Islamist sect Boko Haram during a church service in Jos left at least three Christians dead, a similar blast during a Catholic Mass today killed at least three people. As in the Feb...
Suicide bombers attack worship service in Nigeria
Two suicide bombers from the Boko Haram Islamist sect drove a car laden with bombs into the worship service of a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregation here this morning, killing at least one Christian girl and injuri...
2 churches targeted in bomb attack in Nigeria
Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building in Nigeria Sunday. This took place two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla. Su...
7 Christians Killed in Bauchi State, Nigeria
Early morning attacks in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi state on Sunday left at least seven Christians dead and a church building destroyed. The attack on the Evangelical Church Winning All Church 2, residents of Tafawa Balewa said, was...
Muslim Extremists Destroy Lives, Church Buildings in Nigeria
In Nigeria’s increasingly dangerous northeast, Muslim extremists in this town in Yobe state helped members of the Islamic terrorist sect Boko Haram destroy five church buildings last Saturday (Nov. 26), while previously in neig...
Violence in Yobe State, Nigeria Aimed Mainly at Christians
They stormed this town in Yobe state, northern Nigeria like a swarm of bees, and at the end of their four-hour rampage, some 150 people had been killed – at least 130 of them Christians, according to church sources. Hundreds of...
Islamic Extremist Group Kills Another Christian in Nigeria
Violence-weary Christians in Borno state have been further upset to learn of the murder of a Nigerian evangelist by Boko Haram less than three months after the Islamic extremist group killed a Maiduguri pastor. Already shell-sh...
Muslim Extremists in Nigeria Kill Christians in Two States
Muslim extremists bent on ridding Nigeria’s volatile middle region of Christianity killed five Christians in Niger state on Thursday (Sept. 22) and three others the previous week in the north-central state of Kaduna, including...
Islamic sect in Nigeria murders 10 Christians
At least 10 Christians have been killed in the last two months in Nigeria by the radical Islamic Boko Haram sect. The murder of the Christians took place in Maiduguri, Borneo state in northeastern Nigeria. An anonymous source (...
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