Tag: Borno

List: 165 kidnapped girls are Christian

May 5, 2014 Nigeria Borno, Chibok girls, Christian Association of Nigeria, Nigeria

Of the 200 or more girls kidnapped April 14 from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, at least 165 of them are Christian, according to a list of names and a statement released Sunday, May 4, by a former chairman of an affiliate of the Christian Association of Nigeria. Neither . . . Read More

Nigeria churches urge global prayer for 187 missing girls

April 28, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Goodluck Jonathan, Samuel Dali

Nigeria’s largest church network, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called for prayer and fasting for the safe release of 230 teenage school girls abducted last week. ”The CAN leadership, especially our President, has called that all Christians pray and fast [on Friday, 25th April] because of the security . . . Read More

Boko Haram suspected in deadly attacks

April 14, 2014 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Nigeria

The militant Boko Haram sect is suspected in weekend attacks on villages in Nigeria’s beleagured northeast that left scores dead. News reports said the attackers, armed with military rifles, shoulder-launched grenades and firebombs set fire to the villages of Ngoshe, Kaigamari and Anchaka, in Borno state. The attackers fired on . . . Read More

Nigeria attacks kill more than 150

March 17, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, West Africa

Attacks in Kaduna state, Nigeria, on March 14 left more than 114 people dead and many houses burned.World Watch Monitor More than 150 people have been killed since Friday in central and northern Nigeria in separate attacks on villages populated by a concentration of Christians. On Friday, March 14, . . . Read More

Nigeria ‘at war’ with Boko Haram

March 6, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Cameroon, Chad, Goodluck Jonathan, Kaduna, Niger, Sultan of Sokoto, Yobe, Zaria

Goodluck Jonathan pictured at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January.Jolanda Flubacher, WEC / Flickr / Creative Commons The Nigerian President’s spokesman has said that the conflict with Boko Haram is a “war situation”. Speaking to Lagos-based Channels TV on Feb. 28, Doyin Okupe . . . Read More

No protection for Christian village during deadly attack

February 24, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Goodluck Jonathan, Gwoza

President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Nigeria’s worst affected northern states in May 2013, deploying the army to the region, but without significant impact.Commonwealth Secretariat / Flickr / Creative Commons In the days before a vicious wave of attacks on Feb. 15 that killed hundreds in . . . Read More

Nigeria’s deadly winter

February 14, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, West Africa

Attackers stormed this Catholic church during mass, blocked the main door, detonated homemade bombs, and opened fire.Twitter / @ChristianPost The new year has begun in exceptionally violent fashion in north-eastern Nigeria, prompting Christian organisations to renew their pleas for better government security. Boko Haram, the militant group that wants . . . Read More

Nigerian worshippers killed during mass

January 29, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Yola

World Watch Monitor is curating news coverage of the attacks on Sunday in north-eastern Nigeria. At least 22 worshippers died at a church in Yola, while 300 homes were burnt down in a village in neighbouring Borno state and at least 52 people were killed. Boko Haram is suspected of carrying . . . Read More

Church welcomes US designation of Boko Haram as Foreign Terrorist Organisation

November 15, 2013 Nigeria Adamawa, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Ansaru, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Terrorism, Yobe

One of the major organisations representing Christians in Nigeria has welcomed the US State Department’s announcement on Nov 13 that it has designated Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist group (FTO). The Department also classified its splinter group Ansaru as an FTO. Boko Haram is believed to have links to Al-Qaeda . . . Read More

Boko Haram killing spree claims 110 Nigerians

October 1, 2013 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Catholics, Jos, Kaduna, Nigeria, Sharia, Yobe

The militant Islamist sect Boko Haram is suspected of killing at least 110 people of various faiths across Nigeria during the past week, prompting the country’s top Catholic bishop to declare the rebel movement “has no limits.” On Thursday, Sept. 26, gunmen killed Rev. Augustine Yohana, a Catholic priest, and . . . Read More

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