Nigerian herders kill 33, burn four churches days after kidnapping school children
Nairobi, Kenya RNS Barely a week after the kidnapping of nearly 140 students at a Baptist boarding school in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna, a fresh terrorist attack in the region has left at least 33 people dead and four churches and hundreds of homes burnt down, according to Luka Binniyat, a spokesman for the […]
Burkina Faso: Fulani pastor brings hope to stigmatised communities
World Watch Monitor The disproportionate presence of ethnic Fulani among Islamist militants wreaking havoc in the Sahel and West Africa has led to a stigmatisation of the Fulani generally, says a Protestant pastor from Burkina Faso. In April security forces went into Djibo, a town in the northern part of Burkina Faso and killed 31 […]
New report highlights escalating violence in Nigeria, calls for greater action
Christian advocacy groups have welcomed a new report by a UK parliamentary group which highlights the escalating violence in Nigeria involving Fulani Muslim herdsmen and predominently Christian farmers The report, released in London on Monday, cites figures showing that thousands of civilians are believed to have been killed in attacks led by Fulani herders and periodic retaliatory […]
Muslim Fulani herdsmen kill 13 Christians, wound three in central Nigeria
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 13 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, last Wednesday, the same day four students were kidnapped from a Catholic seminary in Kaduna state. About 20 herdsmen attacked the predominantly Christian village of Kulben, in Plateau state’s Mangu County, at about 8pm, area residents told Morning Star News. […]
Christian woman killed in kidnapping of four Baptists in Nigeria
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Less than a week after Muslim Fulani herdsmen kidnapped six teenage girls from a Christian-run high school in north-central Nigeria, another attack in the same county led to the killing of a Baptist woman and the kidnapping of four others from the same church, sources said. Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed Ezra Haruna, […]
One pastor killed, another kidnapped in separate attacks in north-central Nigeria
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed a Pentecostal pastor and abducted a Baptist pastor in a spate of kidnappings this month in Kaduna state, Nigeria, sources said. “The herdsmen, about 20 of them, shot into our house and broke the doors of the house,” said Emmanuel Noma, who along with his father, 60-year-old pastor […]
After killing of clergyman, priest narrowly escapes death in south-eastern Nigeria
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News Following the killing of a Roman Catholic priest and a parishioner in south-eastern Nigeria earlier this month, another clergyman on Thursday narrowly escaped an attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen about 64 kilometres away, sources said. Armed Fulani herdsmen on 1st August killed Rev Paul Offu in Awgu town, south of Enugu […]
Another 10 Christians killed in Kaduna state as carnage continues in Nigeria
Morning Star News Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 10 Christians in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria on Saturday, bringing the lives lost in the past five weeks to 140 with 160 houses destroyed, sources said. “We were all asleep in our various homes when at about 4am [Saturday], we heard gunshots everywhere in my village,” Amos Samuel, 40, […]
At least 40 Christians killed in two attacks in Kaduna State, Nigeria – sources
Morning Star News At least 32 people were killed in a Muslim Fulani herder attack on a Christian area of north-central Nigeria on Tuesday, sources said. The early morning assault on villages in and around Maro, in Kajuru County of Kaduna state, came after a 10th February herdsmen attack on Angwan Barde, in the same […]
Release International urges re-elected Nigerian President to protect Christians
Persecuted church ministry Release International has urged Nigeria’s re-elected President, Muhammadu Buhari, to protect Christians in his country from the “twin menaces” of terror group Boko Haram and armed Fulani herdsmen. In a statement released as Nigeria’s electoral commission officially declared Buhari the winner of last weekend’s election, Paul Robinson, CEO of Release International, said Boko […]