JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen with machetes and firearms slaughtered more than 200 people in 10 predominantly Christian communities near Jos, Nigeria on Saturday, Sunday and last week in what a cattlemen’s spokesman admitted was likely retaliation for stealing cows. Police in Jos said only 86 people had been killed in the […]
Christian Death Toll from Herdsmen Attacks Mounts in Adamawa State, Nigeria
In area of growing religious conflict, judge sentences five Christians to death.
June 21, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen have killed at least 54 Christians this year in the northeastern state of Adamawa, Nigeria, according to area sources. In a state where predominantly Christian Bachama tribesmen have formed militias in response to violence by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram and heavily-armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen, Christians were […]
Two Christians Ambushed, Killed in Central Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen ramp up onslaught in Pleteau state.
June 14, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (June 10) killed two Christians and seriously wounded another in central Nigeria as they made their way home from a church service, local sources said. Ibrahim Weyi, 45, and Larry More, 53, were said to be hacked to death when herdsmen ambushed them at 7:40 […]
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Mount another Slaughter of Christians in Benue State, Nigeria
At least 39 members of different churches reported killed.
April 26, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Still shocked over a deadly attack on a Catholic congregation on Tuesday (April 24), Christians in Nigeria’s Benue state yesterday suffered another onslaught by Muslim Fulani herdsmen that reportedly left at least 39 people dead. More than 160 houses also were reported to have been set ablaze in heavily armed […]
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Gun Down Christians in Catholic Church in Nigeria
Benue state hit by multiple attacks.
April 25, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (April 24) attacked a Roman Catholic Church service in central Nigeria, killing two priests and 17 other parishioners during an early morning Mass, sources said. In Ayar-Mbalom village in Benue state, the assailants shot dead the Rev. Joseph Gor and the Rev. Felix Tyolaha of […]
Kidnapped Girl’s Church Calls on Buhari to Win Her Release from Boko Haram in Nigeria
Leah Nathan Sharibu remains hostage for refusing to renounce Christ.
March 26, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria retained the only Christian among more than 100 kidnapped girls who were freed last week, prompting the head of her church denomination to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to obtain her release. Boko Haram refused to release Leah Nathan Sharibu, 15, because she would not […]
Christian Widow, Bereaved Father Show Reality behind Herdsmen Attacks in Nigeria
Mother of nine loses husband to killers.
March 19, 2018 By -
MIANGO, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Crestfallen, the 48-year-old Christian sat in his house in Miango, central Nigeria, where three of his children were killed a week before. “These series of attacks have been carried out against us Christians in this area for some time now by these armed herdsmen, and we don’t know precisely why […]
Christian Woman in Hiding after Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill Husband in Nigeria
Predominantly Christian village abandoned.
March 17, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A young Christian mother of three has been in hiding for more than four months since Muslim Fulani herdsmen threatened her ter lling her husband, she said. Soon after the herdsmen killed her husband in an attack on Zanwra village, near Jos in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, 25-year-old Lami Bulus […]
Pastor, Other Christians Slain in Herdsmen Revenge Attacks in Northeast Nigeria
Muslim Fulanis appear to use outside arms, mercenaries.
March 2, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday (Feb. 27) killed a pastor and 19 other Christians in apparent retaliation for attacks by ethnic Bachama militia on Fulani families, sources said. The Rev. Haruna Enoch was killed along with the others in herdsmen attacks on four predominantly Christian areas in […]
Kidnapping of Christian Girls in Kaduna, Nigeria Leads to Casualties, Area Christians Say
Attempt to rescue teenage girls prompts Muslim rampage, they say.
February 27, 2018 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim residents of Kasuwan Magani in northern Nigeria yesterday killed 12 Christians after an attempt to rescue two Christian teenage girls from Muslims who had kidnapped them and coerced them to convert, area residents told Morning Star News. James Madaki, a 50-year-old member of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), said […]