JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – A congregation in this central Nigerian city continued worshiping on Sunday (July 12) after a security man found and tossed over a fence a bomb before it exploded, the pastor said. Authorities later discovered a second bomb on the church premises and disposed of it, said the Rev. Ezekiel Omidiji, […]
Two Explosive Devices Planted at Church in Jos, Nigeria
Bomb found in restroom tossed over fence before it explodes.
July 15, 2015 By -
Boko Haram Unleashes Bloodshed in Attacks in Nigeria’s Central, Northeastern States
At least five Christians killed in Yobe, Borno states; two church buildings attacked in Jos.
July 7, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – At least five Christians were killed in northeastern Nigeria over a weekend of violence capped by a twin bombing in Jos that led to attacks on two church buildings on Sunday night (July 5). In Potiskum, Yobe state in the northeast, Islamic extremist group Boko Haram was suspected in the […]
Boko Haram Suspected in Killing of at Least 29 People, Most Christians, in Nigeria
Three attacks in 10 days after terrorists lose territory in northeast.
May 26, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremist attacks in Nigeria’s Adamawa state in the past 10 days have killed at least 29 people after weeks of Boko Haram rebels losing ground to government forces in the northeast, sources said. Suspected Boko Haram members on Friday (May 22) slaughtered 10 Christians with machetes in Pambula-Kwamda, a Christian community […]
Pastor, More than 70 Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria
Muslim Fulani herdsmen burn homes, church buildings.
May 14, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Gunmen killed a church pastor and more than 70 other Christians in Plateau state in the past month, sources said. Setting fire to church buildings and houses in attacks that continued this week, Fulani Muslim herdsmen on May 2 killed the Rev. Luka Gwom of the Church of Christ in […]
Soldiers Kill Six Christians at Church in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Witnesses Say
Roadblocks set up as security measure ignite dispute.
March 10, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Upset that watchmen of a Catholic Church in Kaduna state on Sunday (March 8) set up a road-block as a security measure, Nigerian soldiers killed five church members, eyewitnesses said. Shortly after opening fire on St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Gidan-Waya, the soldiers shot and killed a Christian from another church as […]
Kidnapped Missionary in Nigeria Released
Phyllis Sortor, 71, freed after 11 days of captivity.
March 7, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The Free Methodist Church USA announced the release of its kidnapped missionary in Nigeria, Phyllis Sortor. In a statement signed on behalf of the Board of Bishops of the church, David W. Kendall said the 71-year-old Sortor was released by her captors on Friday evening (March 6). Kendall said armed gunmen abducted […]
Villagers in Nigeria Hopeful that Kidnapped Missionary Will Be Released
Long-time teacher is like grandmother to many at school, church.
March 6, 2015 By -
LOKOJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Nearly two weeks after heavily armed men kidnapped a long-time missionary in a remote area of Nigeria, despondent colleagues and others are still hopefully praying for her release. Phyllis Sortor, born to U.S. missionaries in Africa and now a widowed grandmother, was kidnapped on Feb. 24 from Hope Academy school in […]
In Nigeria, Remembrance of the Holocaust
It is not hard to remember man’s inhumanity to man in this country.
February 1, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – The 70th anniversary of the liberation of prisoners of the German concentration camp at Auschwitz on Jan. 27 brought to mind the Holocaust Memorial Museum I visited in Jerusalem in 1992. I was gripped with fear as I heard recordings of anguished cries of little children echoing off the walls […]
Slain Ministry Leader in Nigeria Mourned as Dedicated Servant to the Poor
Father of two brought school, health and clothing to thousands.
January 27, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Friday (Jan. 23) killed a father of two in Taraba state whose pastoral ministry had brought education, medicine and clothing to thousands of impoverished people, sources said. Pastor Joshua Adah was returning to his mission station in Bantaje, a village near Jalingo, from an evangelistic outreach […]
Faith of Christians in Niger Grows Stronger in Face of Unprecedented Violence
Churches could see further attacks as task of rebuilding begins.
January 23, 2015 By -
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Christians in Niger are joyfully meeting in homes under police protection as they plan to rebuild church buildings and houses after attacks last weekend (Jan. 16-18) that were unprecedented in scale. “Nothing of this magnitude has ever happened in this nation,” wrote one missionary couple in the capital, Niamey. “Nearly […]