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 […]
Two Small Children among Four Christians Slain in Plateau State, Nigeria
Ethnic Fulani herdsmen again suspected.
November 14, 2013 By -
Boko Haram Violence Cripples Christianity in Areas of Nigeria’s Borno State
Thousands flee attacks; public worship impossible for some who remain.
November 6, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist Boko Haram insurgents have driven thousands of Christians from areas of Borno state, with some of those remaining unable to hold worship services, church leaders said. Boko Haram attacks that killed at least 150 members of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria, or […]
Officials in Nigeria Portray Slaughter of Christian Family as Result of ‘Cattle Theft’
Muslim Fulani herdsmen kill three generations in their home.
October 17, 2013 By -
BAKIN KOGI FORON, Nigeria, October 17, 2013 (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 10 Christians in three villages in this area in Plateau state last week in what authorities called a cattle-rustling attempt, but a visit to the home where eight members of one family were killed revealed the presence of no cows. […]
Muslim Herdsmen, Islamic Extremists Kill More Christians in Nigeria
Ethnic Fulanis murder 15 in Kaduna state; Boko Haram suspected in slaying of Anglican priest in Yobe state.
September 29, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim herdsmen killed 15 Christians in Nigeria’s Kaduna state Saturday morning (Sept. 28), two days after suspected Islamic extremists in Yobe state killed an Anglican pastor and his son, sources said. The ethnic Fulani Muslims in Kaduna state in central Nigeria, where attacks against Christians have increased markedly in the […]
Islamic Extremist Violence Persists in Iraq, Nigeria – and Kenya?
Car-bombings, executions continue in two countries as doubts linger about end of siege in Nairobi.
September 24, 2013 By -
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – Amid the wave of Islamic extremist bombings that have taken place in Iraq in the past week, one aimed at a Christian member of Parliament went largely unnoticed. Catholic news agency Fides News Agency (Agenzia Fides) reports that an apparent suicide attack by car bomb in Kirkuk on Sunday (Sept. […]
Muslim Herdsmen, Soldiers in Nigeria Kill Three Christians, Wound Mother
Latest anti-Christian murders in Plateau state similar to previous attacks.
September 16, 2013 By -
GURA DABWAM, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – In the latest night raids by Muslim herdsmen and soldiers in Plateau state, a Christian and his two teenage sons this month were killed and his wife wounded, Christian leaders said. Ethnic Fulani herdsmen and soldiers on Sept. 3 raided Gura Dabwam village, near Jos in Gyel District, at […]
Muslim Herdsmen Kill Six Christians outside Jos, Nigeria
Guerrilla-style attacks on Christian villages continue.
September 10, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim, ethnic Fulani herdsmen shot five members of a Christian family to death last week, including a 7-year-old boy, and killed another Christian as they fled, relatives said. Alleged cattle theft may have been the pretext for targeting the predominantly Christian agrarian community, but the gunmen struck the family of […]
Armed Muslims in Nigeria Kill Christians in their Homes
Ethnic Fulani herdsmen attack villages on Kaduna/Plateau state border.
September 6, 2013 By -
ADU, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gabriel Anthony, 25, was steeped in quiet, prayerful devotion at 5 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 1) in this northern Nigerian village when he heard gunshots. “Within minutes, bullets were piercing into our rooms,” Anthony told Morning Star News. “I escaped from my room by jumping through the window.” A half […]
Five Christians Killed in Roadside Ambush near Jos, Nigeria
Armed ethnic Fulani herdsmen join forces with Islamic extremist mercenaries, pastor says.
September 1, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – As Emmanuel Sunday rode his motorbike near Jos last Thursday evening (Aug. 29), gunmen stopped him and asked him his religion. The 19-year-old technical school student saw a group of people the gunmen had ordered out of a mini-bus; the Christians had been told to lie on the ground. “The […]
Muslim Mob Injures Church Leaders, Choir Members in Nigeria
Minor dispute leads to incitement of gang with iron rods, knives.
August 26, 2013 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A Muslim mob with knives and iron rods injured several members of an Anglican church in Nasarawa state on Aug. 17 over a dispute about less than 1 cent in change, area Christians said. Three pastors, four elders and choir members of the St. James Anglican Cathedral were wounded in […]