LAFIA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A 60-year-old Christian farmer was hacked to death with machetes last week, the latest victim of attacks by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nasarawa state who have burned church buildings and homes and destroyed crops in the past four years. Barki Baikoh was working on his farm outside of Andaha town […]
60-year-old Christian Killed as Violence Ruins Homes, Churches in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Muslim herdsmen attacks on individual farmers continue unabated.
September 2, 2016 By -
Herdsmen in Nigeria Kill Pastor, Others, as Policy to Settle Cattlemen Decried
Farmers protest violence, Kaduna government land plans.
September 1, 2016 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – As farmers lamented policies designating land for cattlemen in northern Nigeria, suspected Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed a pastor and four other Christians in Kaduna state on Aug. 19. Pastor Luka Ubangari of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) at Angwan Anjo village, near Godogodo in the Jema’a Local Government […]
Student Counters Official Version of Eight Christians Killed in Zamfara State, Nigeria
Muslim students had long sought to kill Christian student, he says.
August 30, 2016 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Contrary to the state government version of an attack in northwestern Nigeria last week, a Christian at the school where Muslim students killed eight people said all the victims were Christians. The Christian student told Morning Star News by phone that the Christian student at Abdu Gusau Polytechnic, in Talata […]
Seven Christians Killed in North-Central Nigeria by Muslim Fulani Cattle Herders
Faction of Boko Haram, said to be arming herdsmen, releases Chibok girls video.
August 17, 2016 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked a predominantly Christian village in north-central Nigeria on Saturday (Aug. 13), killing seven Christians, sources said. Two weeks after herdsmen attacked a nearby area in Kaduna state, the assailants attacked Golkofa village in the same state’s Jema’a Local Government Area on Saturday night, they said. “The […]
At least 13 Christians Killed in Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Attacks in Kaduna State, Nigeria
Three churches scattered as hundreds flee violence.
August 10, 2016 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked a cluster of predominantly Christian villages in Kaduna state last week, killing at least 13 Christians and scattering members of three churches, area sources said. A survivor of the attacks told Morning Star News that the herdsmen killed two Christian women in Ninte village in the […]
Baptist Pastor Loses Hand to Muslim Fulani Herdsman in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Second pastor in the state attacked on his farm in one week.
July 22, 2016 By -
KEFFI, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Two days after a slain pastor in one part of Nasarawa state, Nigeria was buried, a Muslim Fulani herder in another part of the state cut off part of the hand of another pastor working on his farm. The Rev. Hamza Alkali, 66, had to have the rest of his […]
Deep Love, Indescribable Pain for Family of Slain Evangelist in Nigeria
Pastor husband says she had premonition of being in heaven.
July 15, 2016 By -
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The last words of an evangelist who was killed while she was street-preaching here on Saturday (July 9) were, “Blood of Jesus,” her husband told Morning Star News. Eunice Mojisola Olawale, a deaconess in the Redeemed Christian Church of God that her husband pastors in a suburb of Abuja, was […]
Muslim Fulani Herdsmen Kill Pastor in Nasarawa State, Nigeria
ECWA leader attacked with machete blows.
July 5, 2016 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Nasarawa state killed last week in Obi was buried today in his hometown of Zonkwa, Kaduna state. Muslim Fulani herdsmen with machetes killed the Rev. Zakariya Joseph Kurah of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) on Thursday (June 30) while he was working at his farm, sources […]
Catholic Priest Kidnapped in Nigeria Found Dead
Gunmen demanded huge ransom.
June 22, 2016 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The body of a Roman Catholic priest kidnapped two months ago in central Nigeria was found today in bushes near a local government building in Otukpo, Benue state. A church leader at the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo told Morning State News by phone that the body of the Rev. John […]
Muslim Gang in Nigeria Stabs Non-Muslim for Eating on Ramadan
Carpenter sustains multiple wounds.
June 10, 2016 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Young Muslim men stabbed a non-Muslim in Kaduna state on Tuesday (June 7) for failing to observe a day-time fast during the month-long Islamic celebration of Ramadan, according to local reports. Francis Emmanuel Olokpo, who appears to identify as a Christian though his church affiliation was not immediately clear, sustained […]