Islamic Extremists in Nigeria Attack Christians at Sunday Worship

Fulani herdsmen raid villages in broad daylight; Boko Haram continues onslaught.

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists have attacked villages in three states in Nigeria every Sunday this month, killing at least 15 Christians. Christian leaders in the Agatu Local Government Area of central Nigeria’s Benue state said ethnic Fulani herdsmen were responsible for raids on two villages that left seven Christians dead on Sunday […]

Soldiers Join Slaughter of Christians in Nigerian Village, Survivors Say

Special Task Force helps Muslim Fulani herdsmen kill 33 people, they say.

RIYOM, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Survivors of Monday’s (Jan. 6) slaughter of 33 Christians in a village in Nigeria’s Plateau state said Special Task Force (STF) soldiers stationed to protect them turned their weapons on those fleeing the attack. Speaking from her hospital bed with bullet wounds in her legs, 25-year-old Antele Alamba told Morning […]

Once Widowed Christian in Nigeria Loses Second Husband to Muslim Extremists

Mother of six, 14-year-old girl also killed.

BOKKOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists had once prior widowed Faith Kore Usman, a 29-year-old mother of five children, before Fulani herdsmen killed her second husband on New Year’s Eve. As 34-year-old Kore Usman and other Christians were praising God in a field near their church building in Maihakorin Gold village, near Bokkos in […]

Boko Haram Frees French Priest Kidnapped in Cameroon

Nigerian terrorist organization says it received no ransom.

(Morning Star News) – Nigerian Islamic extremists have released a French Roman Catholic priest they kidnapped in Cameroon in November, according to published reports. Members of the Islamic extremist terrorist organization Boko Haram freed Georges Vandenbeusch on Tuesday (Dec. 31) but received no ransom money, according to Agence France-Press (AFP). Vandenbeusch, abducted from Cameroon near […]

Terrorist Influence on Herdsmen Seen in Killing of 12 Christians in Nigeria

Ethnic Fulanis kill more children as they sleep.

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – As violence against Christians hit in central Nigeria again this week, there are indications that Muslim Fulani herdsmen are working with Islamic extremist groups made up in part of foreigners. The Rev. Yiman Orkwar, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Makurdi in Benue state, told Morning Star News that […]

At least 205 Christians Killed by Fulani Herdsmen in Benue State, Nigeria

Thousands displaced, church services halted.

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Reports of Christians attacked in central and northern Nigeria draw more attention, but in more southerly Benue state Islamic extremists killed at least 205 Christians in the last six months alone, sources said. In the southeastern part of Nigeria’s middle belt, Benue state’s Agatu Local Government Area saw deadly attacks […]

School Principal Attacked as New Education Policy Takes Effect in Osun, Nigeria

Christian leaders say government trying to Islamicize schools.

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Educational reforms in Nigeria’s Osun state have created religious tensions in schools, resulting in Islamist youths beating a Christian principal unconscious last month, Christian leaders said. The state in southwestern Nigeria reclassified schools in September, thus merging those originally founded by Christian missionaries with other schools. The mergers, including the […]

In Nigeria and Abroad, Boko Haram Finally Gets Recognition It Deserves

Terrorist group likely abducted French priest in Cameroon for helping Nigerian refugees.

WASHINGTON (Morning Star News) – The same day Islamic extremists from the Nigerian rebel Boko Haram abducted a French priest in Cameroon, Nov. 13, the U.S. State Department designated the group a terrorist organization. After more than a decade of increasingly sophisticated violence by Boko Haram, the designation of it and its sister organization, Ansura, as […]

Islamic Extremists Kill at Least 71 Christians in Nigeria

Suspected Fulani herdsmen slaughter 37 in Plateau state; Boko Haram attacks in Borno.

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Muslim herdsmen slaughtered 37 Christians in coordinated attacks on four Plateau state villages early this morning after Boko Haram terrorists killed at least 34 Christians in Borno state earlier this month, sources said. In attacks on the four predominantly Christian villages that started at 1 a.m. in the Barkin […]

Two Small Children among Four Christians Slain in Plateau State, Nigeria

Ethnic Fulani herdsmen again suspected.

JOS, NIGERIA (Morning Star News) – Gunmen who killed four family members in their home in Plateau state this month, including 2-year-old and 4-year-old boys, were likely Muslim herdsmen, church leaders said. In Rantis village, 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Jos, the suspected ethnic Fulani Muslims launched a guerilla attack on a home at about […]