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Africa rises on World Watch List of worst persecutors

January 8, 2013 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, Al-Qaeda, Arab Spring, Bashar al-Assad, Boko Haram, Egypt, Eritrea, Hindu nationalism, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mali, Mao Zedong, Niger, Nigeria, Sharia, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, Uganda

...World Watch List measure, the most violent place on Earth for Christians. The militant Islamic group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for numerous mass killings of Christians and other Nigerians...

Nigeria – 30 Christians killed in eve of New Year massacres

January 7, 2013 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Christmas, Goodluck Jonathan, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Yobe

...some of whom had moved into the neighbourhood from other parts of the city hit by Boko Haram attacks,” the relief worker added. Climate of fear In a previous attack,...

10 killed, four churches burned in Nigeria

December 6, 2012 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, EYN, Nigeria

Ten people were killed and four churches burned in two separate Dec. 1 attacks in northeast Nigeria by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist group. The...

Nigeria – twin suicide attacks on Kaduna church, after future Archbishop of Canterbury visits

November 27, 2012 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sultan of Sokoto, Taraba

...and Staff College, in Jaji near Kaduna. Sunday’s attack which is believed to have been carried out by the Boko Haram Islamist group occurred after the Church service, when some...

Nigerian Christians on frontline vow to stay despite 40 ‘barbaric’ student deaths

October 17, 2012 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria, Sharia, Yola

...Nigerian security officials said top-ranking Boko Haram members had migrated to the town after sustained military crackdowns on the group’s spiritual home in neighbouring Borno state which has sharia (Islamic...

‘I will never forget that day’

October 5, 2012 Nigeria Boko Haram, Jos, Nigeria, Plateau

...July, Nigerian Senator Gyang Dantong was attending a funeral for more than 100 Christians who had been killed by members of Boko Haram the day before, in Plateau state. While...

From Africa to Asia, offended Muslims vent anger on Christian churches

September 26, 2012 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, Algeria, Asia, Bauchi, Benghazi, Boko Haram, Cairo, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Mardan, Mosul, Nigeria, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, Zinder

...of violence in that part of Nigeria at the hands of Boko Haram, a radical Islamic sect that has carried out attacks in a similar manner in the past. There...

Nigerian church tries to move on after massacre

September 9, 2012 Nigeria Boko Haram, Kaduna, Kogi, Nigeria

...ties to Boko Haram. The police commissioner for Kogi state, Mohammadu Katsina, flatly ruled out any religious motive: “There is no Boko Haram in Okene,” Kastina told the Nigerian newspaper...

Church of Christ in Nigeria reeling from massacre

July 12, 2012 Nigeria Boko Haram, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Islamic extremism, Nigeria, Plateau

...Tuesday, the radical Islamic group Boko Haram said it was responsible for the attacks, and insisted all Christians abandon Christ and accept Islam or they “would never know peace again.”...

Islamists bomb three churches in Kaduna, Nigeria

June 17, 2012 Nigeria Bauchi, Boko Haram, Churches, ECWA, Islamic extremism, Jos, Kaduna, Nigeria, Pentecostals, Sabon Gari, Sharia, Zaria

...others. The attacks were believed to have been carried out by the Boko Haram Islamic sect, which took responsibility for similar attacks in Plateau and Borno states on June 10...

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