UNHCR to Cameroon: Stop deporting Nigerian refugees
...of the country. Background Learn more Boko Haram sets churches on fire in latest attack on Cameroon’s Far North Boko Haram: 381 killed in Nigeria and Cameroon since April ‘Prostitution...
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The Story of Asia Bibi
...to a female co-worker, who objected that the touch of a Christian had made the water haram, or religiously forbidden for Muslims. The woman apparently told Noreen to convert to...
Ongoing religious freedom challenges in the Commonwealth
...assertive Hindu nationalist movement has caused rising levels of persecution of Christians. Meanwhile Christians in Nigeria (14th on the list) experience ongoing persecution at the hands of Boko Haram and...
97 missing Chibok girls feared dead
...are now fears that many of over 100 girls still missing will never return home. Of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram on 14 April 2014, 57 escaped, 107...
Commonwealth worst offenders urged to face up to poor levels of religious freedom
...The charity voiced concern at the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria (no. 14) by Boko Haram and the nomadic Fulani herdsmen. It also drew attention to the persecution of...
Chibok abductions: ‘We are bitter, 112 girls are still in the hands of Boko Haram’
...in May 2017 in exchange for an undisclosed number of Boko Haram commanders, while 21 others were released in October 2016. On 4 January 2018, the Nigerian Army announced it...
Nigerian president assures UK archbishop of efforts to secure release of Christian girl
...the President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari has said his government is working “quietly” to secure the release of a teenage Christian girl kidnapped by Boko Haram. Archbishop Justin Welby, as...
Kidnapped Leah sends message home
Leah Sharibu, the Nigerian Christian girl still being held captive by Boko Haram, reportedly asked her released friends to pass her mother a message, which read: “My mother you should...
Nigerian Christian schoolgirl ‘escaped’, only to be sent back to Boko Haram
...them to the Boko Haram camp. The girls were taken on 19 February during a raid on their school in Dapchi, Yobe state, in the country’s northeast. Boko Haram released...
Nigerian Christian who lost husband in Fulani attack: ‘I returned to encourage other women to do the same’
...back to the village. She is one of the many women made widows by conflict with the herdsmen. “When will the killing stop? It is either Boko Haram insurgents or...