Tag: ECWA

Boko Haram talks reopen, failed bomb-plot relief

July 13, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, ECWA, Jos, Nigeria, Stephen Davis

Fresh negotiations have started with Boko Haram to release more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, a Nigerian human rights activist told Reuters. Fred Eno said others had begun independent negotiations with the Islamist group but did not reveal who the ‘others’ were. The Nigerian government says it has no knowledge of . . . Read More

50 killed in Nigerian church attacks

July 2, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, ECWA, Nigeria

Some of the parents of Chibok’s kidnapped girls. Chibok, Nigeria May 11, 2014World Watch Monitor Scores killed and five churches burnt down as militants raided Christian villages near Chibok, where nearly 300 school girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram in April. On June 29, assailants on motorbikes and in . . . Read More

Kaduna villages’ death toll rises to 150, including pastor’s wife and three children

March 24, 2014 Nigeria ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna

The death toll following a massacre across three villages in central Nigeria a week ago has risen beyond 150, according to the deputy Chairman of the Kaura Local Government Area in Southern Kaduna. Suspected Fulani herdsmen raided three mainly Christian villages Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and Chenshyi (known also as . . . Read More

Pastor killed, church torched in Nigeria

February 14, 2014 Nigeria Ansaru, Christian Association of Nigeria, ECWA, Katsina

The charred remains of Evangelical Church Winning All in Kankia.World Watch Monitor A pastor has been killed and a church set on fire in Nigeria after the body of a six-year-old girl was discovered near his home. Dike Ocha, 50, pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Kankia, . . . Read More

Dozens killed in fresh attacks in central Nigeria

November 29, 2013 Nigeria Berom, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, ECWA, Fulani herdsmen, Plateau

Mass burials took place on Tuesday.World Watch Monitor About 40 people were killed in coordinated attacks on Monday night in four Christian-dominated villages in the central Nigerian State of Plateau. Local sources contacted by World Watch Monitor report that the assailants, believed to be members of the Fulani tribe, . . . Read More

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

Suspected Islamic extremists bombed three churches in Kaduna state this morning, the third consecutive Sunday that worship services in Nigeria have ended in lethal bloodshed. In a predominantly Christian area of Zaria known as Wusasa, a suspected Islamic extremist crashed a car into a barricade at an Evangelical Church Winning . . . Read More

Suicide bombing hits another church in Jos, Nigeria

June 10, 2012 Nigeria ECWA, Jos, Nigeria, Pentecostals, Plateau

An Islamic extremist ran a car full of explosives at a Pentecostal church in this Plateau state city this morning, killing at least two Christians and injuring more than 40 others, military and police officials said. In Borno state also today, gunmen reportedly killed at least two Christians during church . . . Read More

Bombers attack centre in Christian area of Jos

April 25, 2012 Nigeria ECWA, Jos, Nigeria, Plateau

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. At about 10:15 p.m. at the viewing center, one of many such establishments popular in Nigeria . . . Read More

Suicide bomber targets churches in Kaduna, Nigeria

April 9, 2012 Nigeria Churches, ECWA, Kaduna, Nigeria, Zaria

Churches celebrating Easter services were the targets of a suicide bomber who killed at least 38 people yesterday in Kaduna city in northern Nigeria, sources said. Security personnel at one of the church buildings blocked the bomber, believed to belong to the Boko Haram Islamic sect, who then decided to . . . Read More

Five Christians slain in another assault in Kaduna, Nigeria

December 23, 2011 Nigeria Christian Association of Nigeria, ECWA, Kaduna, Nigeria

Local Islamists and Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked a Christian community in Kaduna state on Monday (Dec. 19), killing five people and wounding six, area sources said, just nine days after a deadly attack on a Christian community in Kukum Gida in the same local government area. The Muslim assailants, brandishing . . . Read More

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