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Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

“Incessant killing more dangerous than Coronavirus”: report on Nigeria to UK Parliament

“The incessant killing is more dangerous than Coronavirus” …The words of a community leader in central Nigeria – after coronavirus had reached his country – after . . . Read More

Converts, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Sharia, Women

Nigeria’s Kano State Governor converts Christian under-age girl to Islam

A video showing the Governor of Kano, a state in the far north of Nigeria, leading an under-age Christian girl through the act of becoming a . . . Read More

Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, Minorities, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

Nigerian girl, 17, escapes month in locked room after abduction and forcible conversion to Islam

Sadiya Amos, aged 17, went missing from north central Kaduna in northern Nigeria on the night of 5th January. On 7th January, some men came to . . . Read More

Al-Shabaab, Education, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Somali Region, Wajir

Mass exodus of teachers triggers education crisis in north east Kenya

Recent killings of non-local teachers in north-eastern Kenya by suspected al-Shabaab militants have triggered a further mass exodus from the predominantly Muslim region, after at least . . . Read More

Converts, Human rights, Kidnapping, Minorities, Religious freedom, Women

UN Sec. General’s “biggest data gap in the world” affects persecuted Christian women

The UN Secretary-General last week called it ‘the biggest data gap in the world…what UK writer Caroline Criado Perez calls “default man” thinking: the unquestioned assumption . . . Read More

Location where a Christian mob burnt alive two Muslim men in response to church suicide bomb attacks in Youhanabad, March 2015. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Bombing, Lahore, Taliban, Youhanabad

40 Pakistani Christians freed after almost 5 years in prison on trial for ‘terrorism’

Forty Pakistani Christians, who’ve been on trial for the murder of two men during a violent protest following Easter suicide attacks on two churches in Youhanabad – . . . Read More

Catching Our Eye

Eritrean evangelical Christians freed on bail due to COVID-19

“Why don’t these black lives matter?”

NGOs say changes to Sudan’s Islamic laws don’t go far enough

Boko Haram has killed more than Islamic State in Iraq and Syria combined

Turkey orders deportation of pastor’s American wife, a mother-of-three, in string of expulsions

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