Tag: Nigeria

Afghanistan overtakes N Korea as most dangerous place to live as a Christian

January 19, 2022 Afghanistan Boko Haram, Catholics, Churches, Converts, India, Islamic extremism, Minorities, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Refugees, Religious freedom

Afghan-women-face-highly restricted lives under the Taliban

After the August 2021 takeover by the Taliban of Afghanistan, the country has overtaken North Korea as the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian, according to the annual World Watch List of the NGO Open Doors International, out today. After 20 years at the top*, North . . . Read More

Boko Haram ‘flies flag 2 hours from Abuja’ warned Governor, as Nigerian captive teen turns 18

May 14, 2021 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Sharia, Women

Leah Sharibu was 14 when she was abducted, Feb 19, 2018

Today (14 May), Leah Sharibu is 18 years old; it’s her fourth birthday as the captive of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). Nigerian Leah is the girl who defied one of the most globally well-known terrorist groups, a splinter group of Boko Haram. The then-14 year old was among . . . Read More

‘Bring back our 112 Chibok girls – now and alive!’ Demands for closure and disclosure 7 years on

April 16, 2021 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Islamic extremism, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

Pictures of 82 girls freed in 2017; 112 are still un-accounted for ‘I’m Chibok girl Dad. Bring Back Our Girls Now’ read the white letters on the man’s red T-shirt. The same morning, 15 April seven years ago, he woke to hear his daughter had been abducted from her . . . Read More

COVID-19 exacerbates discrimination against minority Christians globally

January 13, 2021 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, China, Fulani herdsmen, Hindu nationalism, Human rights, India, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Minorities, Nigeria, Religious freedom, Turkey, Women

• Christians refused coronavirus aid in countries from India to Yemen to West Africa • COVID-19 legitimises increased surveillance and restrictions by authoritarian governments • Organised criminal groups use virus as means to extend their control, including over churches • Nationalism driven by majority religious identity rises in countries such . . . Read More

Church surveillance, COVID-19 controls affect China’s Christians – 1 of 5 global trends

January 13, 2021 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, China, Churches, Egypt, Fulani herdsmen, Hindu nationalism, Human rights, India, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Minorities, Nigeria, Religious freedom, Turkey, Women

The emergency that dominated the globe during the past year — the novel coronavirus — also dominated the countries of the World Watch List published by Open Doors International today (Jan 13) and the lives of the estimated 340 million Christians . . . Read More

“Why don’t these black lives matter?”

August 21, 2020 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, Churches, Islamic extremism, Minorities, Nigeria, Religious freedom, UN

Teachers working in north-eastern Kenya demonstrated in February 2015, asking to be reassigned following the killing of 20 of their colleagues in an attack by Islamist militants. (Photo: Getty Images)

The question of the UK’s Lord Alton on a new UN Day recognised for only the second time this year, the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, 22 August. Until 2019, there has . . . Read More

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

July 29, 2020 Nigeria Archbishop Ben Kwashi, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Refugees, Women

Wenhana Sheku had her left hand cut off by suspected Fulani militants, Oct 2019

Nigerian Wanhena Sheku was working alone on her farm when a group she identified as Fulani herdsmen attacked her in mid-October, 2019. “They told me to place my left arm on a wooden log before they hacked my hand off. Then they took my severed hand and ran away. I . . . Read More

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

June 15, 2020 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

“The incessant killing is more dangerous than Coronavirus” …The words of a community leader in central Nigeria – after coronavirus had reached his country – after an April attack in which nine people died, including a pregnant woman and her three year old. His reaction is one of several testimonies . . . Read More

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

April 22, 2020 Nigeria Converts, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Sharia, Women

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 Muslim inside his State Government House has sparked outrage on Nigerian social media. World Watch Monitor has independently confirmed the video is genuine and . . . Read More

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

March 25, 2020 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Islamic extremism, Kidnapping, Minorities, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

According to the UN, over 4,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram alone in northeast Nigeria. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

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 force her father Amos Chindo to attend a Sharia court in Anchau (in Kubau) without telling him what offence he had committed or even . . . Read More

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