104 Dapchi girls back home, but fate of Christian unknown
Embed from Getty Images (From left) Zahra Bukar, 13, Fatima Abdu, 14, Fatima Abdulkarim, 15, and Yagana Mustapha, 15, were released by Boko Haram after they were abducted from their...
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Nigerian kidnappers have released 101 girls. Nine have not returned; one of them is a Christian.
Of the 110 Nigerian girls kidnapped 19 Feb. by militants suspected to be affiliated with the violent Islamist group Boko Haram, 101 were unexpectedly released 21 March. Of the remaining...
5 years on, what has Pope Francis done for religious freedom?
...of their Christian faith. Just last month, he spoke with Rebecca Bitrus, a Nigerian woman who suffered terrible abuse after her capture by Boko Haram in 2014, and also the...
Bloody clashes in Kaduna as Christian youths resist dating and conversion of Christian girls
...was the subject of a detailed report, ‘Our Bodies, their Battleground’, whose authors explored what they called “the facilitating characteristics of the country in which the [Boko Haram] insurgency has...
Christian women at double risk of persecution – because of gender as well as religion
Two of these girls were abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) For the first time ever, the persecution of women as...
Death and destruction as Boko Haram launches fresh attacks in Cameroon
A Christian family in northern Cameroon look through what is left of their home after it was burned down on 23 February by Boko Haram militants (World Watch Monitor) Boko...
Boko Haram killed Christian woman’s son to ‘teach her a lesson’ for not converting to Islam
Rebecca Bitrus was abducted by Boko Haram in 2014. (Photo credit: Claire Giangravé/Crux news agency) The shocking story of Rebecca Bitrus, a Nigerian woman who suffered terrible abuse after her...
Asia Bibi’s family and Boko Haram survivor visit Pope
...in prison since 2009, and Rebecca Bitrus, a Nigerian woman who escaped from Boko Haram captivity. At the same time, the Maronite Cathedral of St. Elias in Aleppo, Syria, and...
Amnesty: ‘Discrimination rife in all regions of the world … with deadly consequences’
...are accused of “gross human rights violations” in the fight against the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, including “extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and torture and other ill-treatment, which, in some...
Fears of ‘another Chibok’ after Boko Haram school attack
...to marry Boko Haram fighters UPDATE: New video by Boko Haram claims some Chibok schoolgirls chose not to be rescued 500 children taken by Boko Haram from one northern Nigeria...