Herdsmen and Others Kill 18 Christians in Northern Nigeria

Assailants burn down 92 homes.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen and others on Tuesday night (April 26) attacked four villages in Kaduna state, Nigeria, killing 18 Christians and burning down 92 houses, sources said. The killings took place in three of the four villages. In Kauru County, the assailants killed 11 Christians in Ungwan Rimi village, six in […]

Armed Terrorists Kill Christians near Kaduna City, Nigeria

Three slain on March 31, two kidnapped.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Armed terrorists on Thursday night (March 31) raided a predominantly Christian suburb of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria, killing three Christians and wounding three others, sources said. The gunmen attacked Angwan Bulus village, in the Sabon Tasha area of Chikun County, late at night, said the Rev. Ibrahim Simon, an […]

Priest among 45 Christians Kidnapped in Central Nigeria 

Third Roman Catholic clergyman abducted this month.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Roman Catholic priest was among 45 Christians abducted by Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists who raided at least six villages in Niger state, Nigeria last weekend (March 26-27). The Rev. Leo Raphael Ozigi of Mary’s Catholic Church was seized from Sarkin Pawa village, Munya County, on Sunday (March 27), […]

Terrorists Kill 50 Christians and Abduct 100, including Priest

Church building, homes burned down in Kaduna state, Nigeria.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (March 24) killed an estimated 50 Christians and abducted a Catholic priest in attacks on communities in an area of Kaduna state, Nigeria, area sources said. In late-night attacks on 10 predominantly Christian communities of Giwa County, herdsmen and others also took about 100 people captive […]

Suspected Fulani Herdsmen Kill 32 Christians in Northern Nigeria

200 houses destroyed in attack in Kaduna state.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – More than 100 suspected Fulani herdsmen and Islamic extremist terrorists on Sunday night (March 20) killed 32 civilians, two soldiers and possibly abducted a woman in an attack on a predominantly Christian town in Nigeria, sources said. In northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, the assailants raided the town of Kagoro, Kaura […]

Suspected Herdsmen Kidnap 46 Christians in Nigeria 

Heavily armed terrorists attack as villagers sleep.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (March 17) kidnapped 46 Christians and a number of their children in an attack in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. The heavily armed terrorists attacked predominantly Christian Agunu Dutse village, Kachia County, in southern Kaduna state, shortly after midnight. “The herdsmen terrorists invaded our village, […]

Catholic Church Worker Killed in Kidnapping of Priest in Nigeria 

Christians attacked in Kaduna, Plateau and Niger states.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A church security guard was killed in the kidnapping of a Roman Catholic priest at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday (March 8) in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. The security guard, identified only as Luka, was killed in the abduction of the Rev. Joseph Akeke of St. John’s Catholic Church […]

Islamic Terrorists Kill Three Christians in Chibok, Nigeria 

Church building burned in another attack on area in northeast. 

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Friday (Feb. 25) killed three Christians in an attack on northeast Nigeria’s Chibok area, residents say. Besides the Christians killed in the attack on Kautikari village, Borno state, at about 5 p.m., a Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) worship […]

Fulanis Kill 11Christians in Attack on Village, Sources Say

Following other assaults, 20 houses burned.

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Jan. 30) killed 11 Christians in an attack in northern Nigeria, sources said. Danjuma Enoch said his grandmother, known as Mama Fide, was burned to death in the attack at 3 a.m. in southern Kaduna state’s Kurmin Masara village, Zangon Kataf County. “Grandma was unable to […]

Suspected Fulanis Kill 22 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria

Attack in one village burns down 24 houses. 

ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed four Christians in Plateau state on Saturday (Jan. 22), after 18 Christians were slain in another area of the state on Jan. 11, sources said. In the two attacks, eight other Christians were reported wounded, and in one village 24 homes were burned down. The armed […]