09/15/2024
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Nigeria

Fulani herders killed six villagers on August 23, contributing to the total of 38 Christians who lost their lives in Benue State, Nigeria, during July and August.

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Abuja, Nigeria: The number of deaths in Benue State, Nigeria, keeps rising. In July and August, the number of Christians killed in the same county reached 38. Fulani herders murdered six villagers on August 23. According to a resident named Joseph Adayi, who sent the information via text message, a group of armed herdsmen attacked the…

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USCIRF Reports That Nigeria Persists in Tolerating Terrorism

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ABUJA, Nigeria The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report states that Nigerian federal and state governments still tolerate attacks by nonstate actors justifying violence based on religion. “Islamist and some Fulani militant groups have expressed a goal of overthrowing secular governance to enforce a singular interpretation of Islam,” states the report, released on Friday (Aug….

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Radical Muslims destroyed a church in central Nigeria by setting it on fire once more.

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ABUJA, Nigeria Early on Saturday, August 10, in the Niger state of central Nigeria, Muslims set fire to a church, according to sources. According to Associate Pastor Samson Ogbebor, Muslims have destroyed the worship auditorium at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) congregation in Kontagora town twice; the second time it happened at around three…

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A herder attack leaves four Christians injured in Plateau State, Nigeria.

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Abuja, Nigeria: On Tuesday, a group of predominantly Muslim Fulani herdsmen reportedly attacked Christian farmers in Plateau State, resulting in injuries to four individuals. In Lwa village, Bachi District, Riyom County, three individuals were subjected to an attack while tending to their farm work. The Fulani herders also attacked another person while attempting to flee the…

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Eighteen Christians in Benue State, Nigeria, Killed by Fulani Militants

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ABUJA, Nigeria Fulani attackers killed 18 Christians in a late-night assault on Friday (July 19) in central Nigeria, area residents said. The assailants invaded Mbacher village, a predominantly Christian community in Benue state’s Katsina-Ala County, at about 11 p.m., said Joseph Achiv. “A group of Fulani Muslims carrying deadly weapons attacked Mbacher village,” Achiv told Christian…

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Terrorist attacks led to the closure of seventy churches in Nigeria, but the priest escaped unharmed.

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In response to terrorist attacks, a denomination in Plateau State, Nigeria, has closed seventy of its churches. The terrorists reportedly freed the kidnapped priest in the nation’s northwest on Sunday, July 7th, as per reports. He asserted that the December 2017 Christmas attacks had a profound effect on COCIN congregations. The Christmas attacks in December…

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Kidnapped clergy members in Nigeria face threats from Islamic terrorists.

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Abuja, Nigeria: According to local reports, Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria threatened to kill a kidnapped Christian pastor in a video that they released early last week if they did not receive a sizable ransom payment. The same group that released the video featuring Boko Haram’s flag in May also features Rev. Paul Musa, the…

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Three Christians fall victim to Islamic extremists in Northeast Nigeria.

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Abuja, Nigeria Suspected Islamic extremist militants on Wednesday (Jun. 5) killed three Christians and kidnapped another after intercepting them on a highway in northeast Nigeria, Christian leaders said. The suspected Boko Haram terrorists stopped a commercial passenger vehicle along the Damaturu-Biu Highway in Yobe State and separated four Christians, killing three of them and taking the…

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In Nigeria, a pastor, his wife, and three other Christians were brutally murdered.

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Abuja, Nigeria Suspected Fulani herders killed a pastor, his wife, and three other Christians at about midnight on June 2 in Plateau State, central Nigeria, sources said. The raiders, armed with heavy weaponry, invaded a Christian village in Kwall District, BASSA County, and killed Pastor Dauda Dalyop, 63, of the Assemblies of God Church. “In the…

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