Tag: Nigeria

Parents torn over loss of daughter in Nigeria

March 22, 2012 Nigeria Bauchi, Nigeria

Nearly seven months after their 24-year-old daughter disappeared during a wave of Islamic extremist violence here, Helen and Dakim Gyang Bot can only assume that the voice on the other end of her cell phone that told them “we have killed her” was telling the truth. The body of Simi . . . Read More

Survivors desperately seek loved ones in Jos, Nigeria blast

March 13, 2012 Nigeria Jos, Nigeria

One man rendered a widower by the Islamist suicide bombing at a Catholic church on Sunday (March 11) discovered his wife had been killed only after finding her severed hand with her wedding ring on it. Another could identify his wife only by the clothing left on her remains. Both . . . Read More

Another church in Jos, Nigeria hit by suicide bombing

March 11, 2012 Nigeria Boko Haram, Jos, Nigeria

Two weeks after a suicide bomb attack by the Islamist sect Boko Haram during a church service here left at least three Christians dead, a similar blast during a Catholic Mass today killed at least three people. As in the Feb. 26 bomb blast outside the church walls of the . . . Read More

Suicide bombers attack worship service in Jos, Nigeria

February 26, 2012 Nigeria Bauchi, Boko Haram, Borno, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Islamic extremism, Jos, Maiduguri, Niger, Nigeria, Potiskum, Sharia, Yobe

Two suicide bombers from the Boko Haram Islamist sect drove a car laden with bombs into the worship service of a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregation here this morning, killing at least one Christian and injuring dozens of other church members, sources said. A man claiming to be . . . Read More

Two churches targeted in bomb attack in Nigeria

February 21, 2012 Nigeria Boko Haram, Churches, Enugu, Goodluck Jonathan, Kano, Lagos, Nigeria, Zaria

Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building here on Sunday (Feb. 19), two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla. Sunday’s blast in Suleja, in front of Christ Embassy church during their morning worship, injured five . . . Read More

Seven Christians killed in Bauchi, Nigeria

January 24, 2012 Nigeria Bauchi, Boko Haram, Nigeria

Early morning attacks in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi state on Sunday (Jan. 22) left at least seven Christians dead and a church building destroyed. The attack on the Evangelical Church Winning All Church 2, residents of Tafawa Balewa said, was carried out by area Islamic extremists alongside members of the Boko . . . Read More

Death toll climbs in Islamist attacks in Nigeria’s northeast

January 9, 2012 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Gombe, Lagos, Nigeria

The number of Christians killed in an Islamic extremist attack here on Thursday (Jan. 5) has risen to nine, and over the weekend the same terrorist group killed at least 21 Christians in neighboring Adamawa state, sources said. Members of the Boko Haram group that seeks to impose sharia (Islamic . . . Read More

Persecution increased most in Sudan, Nigeria, report says

January 4, 2012 Global News -- No Particular Country Abyei, Afghanistan, Alexandria, Arab Spring, Blasphemy, Blue Nile, Boko Haram, China, Copts, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hosni Mubarak, Iran, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Maspero, Nigeria, Omar al-Bashir, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Yemen

Sudan and northern Nigeria saw steeper increases in persecution against Christians than 48 other nations where Christians suffered abuse last year, according to an annual ranking by Christian support organization Open Doors. Sudan – where northern Christians experienced greater vulnerability after southern Sudan seceded in a July referendum, and where . . . Read More

Christians face harsh realities of Nigerian church bombing

December 29, 2011 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Christmas, Nigeria, Sultan of Sokoto, Trauma

Until last Sunday, Christmas Day, St. Theresa’s Catholic Church on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, was just one of many branches of Christianity in the country. An early morning suicide bomb attack by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram that left at least 45 people dead and 73 others . . . Read More

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