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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill Christian leader in Borno State, Nigeria
Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group yesterday killed the Rev. Faye Pama Musa, secretary of the Borno state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). He was 47.
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15 countries cited for religious freedom violations
WASHINGTON (RNS) It can be hard to come up with a list of countries with the most egregious records on religious freedom when some of the world’s worst offenders aren’t even nation states.
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Attack in Nigeria that Killed 18 Christians Caps Two Years of Islamic Aggression
Farmer Hosea Mashaf rushed from a neighboring village to aid Christians under attack. (Morning Star News photo) MILE BAKWAI, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Hosea Mashaf was resting in his village of Chirang Mangor, Nigeria, when...
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Prominent Indian leaders murdered in South America
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries PASADENA, CA (ANS) – David Andrés Kietzman, the Executive Director of Latin American Indian Ministries (LAIM), has told the ASSIST News Service of the tragic killing of two Indi...
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Rick Warren forgives illegal gun dealer for youngest son’s suicide
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries LAKE FOREST, CA (ANS) – Pastor Rick Warren, the author of the best-selling book, “The Purpose Driven Life,” and senior pastor of Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Fores...
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Church walls go up, then torn down by local government
Cheers went up as a backhoe tore down the barely finished walls of the Batak Protestant Church near Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday. The pile of rubble that remained was only the latest setback to Christians trying to retain a t...
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Kano bus bomb prompts religious leaders to joint call for urgent measures
A car bomb attack in a Christian enclave of Kano, the largest city in mainly-Muslim Northern Nigeria, has heightened religious and ethnic tensions throughout the country.
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Widest church grouping raises funds for Boko Haram’s almost 800 victims during 2012
The most dangerous country for a Christian to live during 2012 was, arguably, Nigeria. That’s what research for the 2013 edition of the World Watch List shows up: it’s produced by the global Christian organisation Open Doors, w...
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Nigerian army chief: Officer had prior knowledge of church bombing
Nigerian military authorities say the commandant at a military college in Kaduna state had prior knowledge of the Nov. 25, 2012 bombing that killed 20 Christians at the institution's chapel.
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2 Africans among candidates for next pope
African reaction to Pope Benedict's resignation announcement is partly focused on whether his successor could come from the continent. Two West African cardinals, Peter Turkson of Ghana, and Francis Arinze of Nigeria, are cons...