Tag: Nigeria

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

Nigeria: ‘Government is Boko Haram but without bomb’, says church leader

January 20, 2020 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic State West Africa Province, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

A mother sits mourning the death of her husband after Boko Haram attacks at Dalori village on the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria on 31 January 2016. (Photo: Getty Images)

Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, is visiting the United Kingdom this week to discuss trade and investment amid increased criticism from church leaders back home who say the government is effectively enabling attacks on Christians in the country. “They [the government] are using the levers of power to secure the supremacy . . . Read More

Violent Islamist militancy spreads into weak states across sub-Saharan Africa

January 15, 2020 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Nigeria

Nigerien soldiers on patrol near the town of Arlit, north-central Niger. (Photo: Getty)

The newly-released annual World Watch List (WWL) of the top 50 countries in which it is most difficult to live as a Christian shows that, especially in the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of Islamist militancy has become a challenge not only to Christians, but also to the existence . . . Read More

Christians in Africa face ‘explosion’ in violence, senior church leader says

December 20, 2019 Global News -- No Particular Country Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Islamic extremism, Mozambique, Nigeria

Church leaders as well as government officials and representatives of the Muslim community attended the funeral of the six killed in the Dablo attack. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Violence against Christians in Africa “is exploding”, according to a senior church leader in the Central African Republic. In Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mozambique there has been an increase in attacks on Christians, including church leaders and churches in recent weeks, said Cardinal Dieudonne Nzapalainga in an interview with the . . . Read More

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