JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – In Mubi in northeastern Nigeria, Christians do not dare step out of their homes after 8 p.m., church leaders say. And many Christians are too afraid of Islamic extremist attacks to attend church services. This month suspected members of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram killed eight members of […]
Nigerian Town’s Christians Paralyzed amid Islamic Extremist Attacks
Killings by suspected Islamic extremists make going to church – or buying groceries – difficult.
February 28, 2013 By -
Nigerian Army Chief Says Officer Had Prior Knowledge of Church Bombing
Former college commandant denies allegations; Boko Haram members arrested
February 27, 2013 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Nigerian military authorities say the commandant at a military college in Kaduna state had prior knowledge of the Nov. 25, 2012 bombing that killed 20 Christians at the institution’s chapel. Maj.-Gen. Mohammed Isa knew of Islamic extremist plans to attack the St. Andrews Chapel at the Command and Staff […]
Nigerian President Defends Security amid Reports of Slaughters
One massacre confirmed while administration denies another.
January 5, 2013 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan defended his administration’s efforts to protect churches as he visited a worship service in Abuja last Sunday (Dec. 30), amid disputed reports of massacred Christians in Borno state. While the administration says it found press reports of a massacre of 15 Christians in Chibok, Borno […]
12 Christians Killed in Christmas Bloodshed in Nigeria
Gunmen attack two churches in Borno, Yobe states on Christmas Eve.
December 26, 2012 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Christmas Eve attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria’s Borno state – already reeling from the slaughter of at least 10 Christians earlier this month – took the lives of six people at a Baptist church, as gunmen killed six others in Yobe state the same night. In […]
Suicide Bombers Strike Church in Northern Nigeria
Two student-pastors among 11 slain in blast in Kaduna state.
November 26, 2012 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Two seminary students serving as pastors at a church bombed yesterday in Jaji, in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, were among 11 Christians killed in the suicide attack, the school’s president said. The Rev. Titus Sambo and Israel Olaleye, students at Baptist Theological Seminary in Kaduna, died in the dual […]
View from the Altar – Bomb Blast at Church in Nigeria
Priest relates experience; two blinded in suicide attack by suspected Islamic extremist.
November 9, 2012 By -
KADUNA CITY, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – With one eye still working, the Rev. Michael Boni Bazza was able to see his parishioners charging helter-skelter after the Oct. 28 suicide blast that claimed at least seven lives. Burned on his head and mouth, the priest of St. Rita’s Catholic Church in the Malali area of […]
Suicide Bombing at Church Takes More Lives in Nigeria
Within two days of inter-faith peace effort, suspected Islamic extremist attacks.
November 2, 2012 By -
KADUNA CITY, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A suicide bomb explosion that killed seven people at a Catholic church here on Sunday (Oct. 28) was the fourth such attack in Kaduna state in four months. Less than two days after a festival aimed at reconciling Muslims and Christians in this northern Nigeria city, the […]
Christians Targeted in Nigeria’s University Killings, Students Say
Carnage follows authorities’ raid on area Islamic extremists of Boko Haram
October 5, 2012 By -
YOLA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The gunmen who killed at least 46 people in Nigeria’s northwestern town of Mubi on Monday (Oct. 1) first asked them if they were Christians before shooting or knifing them, according to students who escaped the carnage. Two students from the off-campus housing site in the Mubi suburb of Wuro […]
Violence against Christians Persists in Nigeria
Children, elderly among those killed in Bauchi state.
October 1, 2012 By -
BAUCHI, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – September proved a bloody month in Nigeria as Christians continued to come under attack from Islamic extremists. A suicide bomber believed to belong to the Islamic extremist Boko Haram sect on Sept. 23 detonated explosives in a car he was driving in the parking lot of St. John’s […]