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Pakistan: Islamic groups threaten Supreme Court judges ahead of Asia Bibi ruling

October 11, 2018 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Minorities, Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan

Asia Bibi with Punjab Governor, Salmaan Taseer, who was assassinated for supporting her case. (Photo: Office of the Governor of Punjab)

...Christian had made the water haram, or religiously forbidden for Muslims. The woman reportedly told Noreen to convert to Islam in order to become purified of her ritual impurity. Noreen’s...

Leah Sharibu’s mother pleads with Nigerian president as kidnappers threaten to kill daughter

October 4, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Leah Sharibu (Photo: Family) The mother of the Christian girl detained by Boko Haram for over seven months has called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to secure her daughter’s release....

Boko Haram kills midwife, threatens to kill other hostages, including Leah Sharibu, unless demands met

September 18, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Islamic State, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, UN

...this is the first execution by Boko Haram of an aid worker for failure to respond to a demand,” he said in a statement this morning. “Boko Haram generally executes...

Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report

September 14, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Copts, Egypt, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Sahel, Somalia, Syria, Tony Blair, Women, Yemen

This is one of the fifty five photos that is part of the photo story "Renewed day by day," commissioned by World Watch Monitor, exploring the extensive damage to churches in Egypt's Minya region that took place in late August 2013.

...which said: “Nigeria’s Boko Haram and Mali’s Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin demonstrated the fluidity of violence across the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin, instigating attacks in four countries each.”...

Kidnapped Nigerian Christian girl Leah Sharibu’s home burgled

September 12, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Children, Dapchi, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Women, Yobe

Leah Sharibu, 14, was abducted by Boko Haram on 19 February 2018. (Photo from family)

...February, together with 109 other girls, by an Islamist group believed to be a break-away faction from Boko Haram. The other girls were all later released, but Leah is still...

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram told to return to dangerous areas to vote

September 5, 2018 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Fulani herdsmen, IDPs, Nigeria, Yobe

...Haram”. President Muhammadu Buhari, who is seeking a second term in the February elections, came to power in 2015 with the promise to silence Boko Haram. But, so far, he...

Parents seek global petitions to Nigerian President to ‘#BringBackOurLeah’

September 3, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Children, Dapchi, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Women, Yobe

Leah Sharibu. (Photo from family) The parents of the Nigerian Christian girl held by Boko Haram say they have renewed hope that she might safely return home after a short...

Nigeria: Kidnapped Leah Sharibu calls on president for help

August 29, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Children, Dapchi, Kidnapping, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, Women

...between the government and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a break-away faction of Boko Haram, which is apparently holding her. “It really is her voice. Before, I thought...

Nigerian church leaders, families continue to die; US top diplomat blames ‘climate of impunity’

August 29, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau

...expressed its concern over the conflict between farmers and herders, which it says has become the country’s gravest security challenge, claiming six times more lives than the Boko Haram insurgency....

Nigeria denies paying ransom for Dapchi girls’ release from Boko Haram

August 20, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Dapchi, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria, UN

The worship auditorium of Living Faith Church Damaturu, destroyed by Boko Haram in 2011. (World Watch Monitor) Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen have between them claimed at least 26,000 lives...

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