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 […]
Suicide Bombers Strike Church in Northern Nigeria
Two student-pastors among 11 slain in blast in Kaduna state.
November 26, 2012 By -
Christian Convert from Islam Beheaded in Somalia
Islamic extremists accuse young man of being spy, embracing ‘foreign religion.’
November 17, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from Somalia’s rebel Al-Shabaab militants on Friday (Nov. 16) killed a Christian in Somalia’s coastal city of Barawa, accusing him of being a spy and leaving Islam, Christian and Muslim witnesses said. The extremists beheaded 25-year-old Farhan Haji Mose after monitoring his movements for six months, […]
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 […]
Pastor Killed in Church Blast in Garissa, Kenya
Several others injured in attack by suspected Islamic extremists.
November 4, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Chaplain Julius Mukonzi was killed and 11 others were injured today when suspected Islamic extremists cast a grenade or other explosive at a church in Garissa in eastern Kenya, sources said. At least three of the 11 injured had wounds so serious they were air-lifted to Kenyatta General Hospital […]
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 […]
Church Buildings Attacked across Tanzania
Muslims incited to destruction after children’s argument leads to alleged defiling of Koran.
October 19, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamists burned several church buildings in various parts of Tanzania this week after two children’s argument about the Koran resulted in a Christian boy allegedly defiling Islam’s sacred book. The attacks took place in the normally peaceful country from its western border to its semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar. In Kigoma, […]
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 […]
One Child Dead, Others Injured in Church Blast in Kenya
Sympathizers of Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels suspected.
September 30, 2012 By -
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A 9-year-old boy was killed and several others were seriously injured after a suspected grenade attack on a church here this morning, sources said. A source who visited the site told Morning Star News by phone that the children were attending a Sunday school class at 10:30 a.m. when […]