Essay: Sing for Freedom – raise your voice for victims of abductions in Nigeria
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy organisation CSW, on why – and how – we should stand up for justice on behalf of vulnerable communities in northern and central Nigeria…
Essay: Nigeria – We must not stop calling and praying for Leah Sharibu’s freedom
With her 18th birthday marked by campaigners last week, ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, looks at the case of Nigerian woman Leah Sharibu, kidnapped in February, 2018, from her school…
Christian leader urges people to pray for kidnapped women in Nigeria
The leader of Nigeria’s Evangelical Church Winning All has called on Christians to pray for a number of women kidnapped by Islamic extremist groups in north-east Nigeria in recent years. Morning Star News reports that Rev Stephen Baba Panya, president of the ECWA, said church leaders were troubled at the lack of efforts from the Nigerian Govermnment […]
Nigeria says kidnapped Christian teenager Leah Sharibu is alive
Jos, NigeriaMorning Star News More than a month after an aid worker indicated in a video that kidnapped Christian teenager Leah Sharibu had been killed, a government official in Nigeria on Saturday said she was alive. Citing intelligence from security agencies, presidential spokesman Garba Shehu released a statement reaffirming that the government is negotiating with […]
Calls for release of Nigerian Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu renewed ahead of her 16th birthday
Calls for the release of Nigerian Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu – among 110 girls abducted from their school in Dapchi in February, 2018 – have been renewed ahead of her 16th birthday on Tuesday. Leah Sharibu. Sharibu was 14-years-old when she was taken from the school on 19th February by militants belonging to Boko Haram […]
As Nigeria votes, family and churches urge candidates to remember Christian teen Leah Sharibu
World Watch Monitor One year since the Christian teenager Leah Sharibu was abducted from her boarding school in north-eastern Nigeria by an Islamist group, a coalition of groups have called on presidential candidates to tell Nigerians how they plan to secure her release. “We are urging the political parties and their candidates that now that the campaigns […]
Protest to be held a year after Leah Sharibu kidnapped from a Nigerian school
UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW will lead a protest outside the Nigerian High Commission in London on 19th February, marking a year since schoolgirl Leah Sharibu was abducted from her highschool in Nigeria by terror group Boko Haram. Some 110 girls were taken from the school but while all of her classmates were released the […]
Church leaders in Nigeria not giving up on rescue of Leah Sharibu
Morning Star News Church leaders in Nigeria have said they are not giving up on pressing for the rescue of high school girl Leah Sharibu, despite an announcement by Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram that it will keep her as a slave. Leaders at the Evangelical Church Winning All have intensified discussions with government officials urging […]
Evangelical organisations call for prayer for kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu
Three key evangelical organisations have issued a joint call for the Nigerian Government and international community to increase efforts to free schoolgirl Leah Sharibu, among more than 100 students abducted from a high school in the country’s north-east in February. In a statement released on Tuesday, the World Evangelical Alliance, Association of Evangelicals in Africa and […]
Leah Sharibu kept as slave, aid worker killed as ‘apostate,’ in Nigeria, report says
Morning Star News Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has killed an aid worker as an “apostate” from Islam and vowed to keep kidnapped high school girl Leah Sharibu as a “slave for life,” Nigerian news outlet The Cable reported. Leah, kidnapped along with more than 100 schoolgirls from Dapchi, Yobe state in February but not […]