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Bombers attack center in Christian area of Jos, Nigeria

One person was killed and nine others were injured last night after suspected Islamic extremists attacked a TV viewing center in a Christian area of Jos where a crowd had gathered to watch soccer.
 
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Parents torn over loss of daughter in Nigeria

Catholic troubled by Muslim college instructor disappears in volatile northeast. BAUCHI, Nigeria, March 22 (CDN) — Nearly seven months after their 24-year-old daughter disappeared during a wave of Islamic extremist violence he...

 
 

Survivors desperately seek loved ones after Jos, Nigeria blast

One man rendered a widower by the Islamist suicide bombing at a Catholic church on Sunday (March 11) discovered his wife had been killed only after finding her severed hand with her wedding ring on it. Another could identify hi...
 
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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...

 
 

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...
 
 
 

Three Christians Killed in Attacks in Nigeria’s Kaduna State

It was a few minutes before 10 at night when the staccato sound of gunfire interrupted the serene worship of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church near Zonkwa, Kaduna state. When the chaos ended, two women lay dead and 12 people were wo...

 
 

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...
 
 

Pakistani Muslims Fire on Christians in Land-Grab, Killing One

Muslims in Pakistan’s Mian Channu area in southern Punjab Province shot dead an unarmed Christian man and injured 21 others, six of them critically, in an attempted land-grab on Wednesday (Oct. 5). Residents of the area told Co...
 
 

Christian Girl, Family in Pakistan Expelled over Misspelling

An 8th grade student in Pakistan has been expelled from school and her family forced to relocate after the Christian girl misspelled an Urdu word, leading to accusations of “blasphemy,” sources said. In the garrison city of Abb...