By Diana Chandler KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) – At least 49 people were killed and 27 others kidnapped in attacks on Christian communities in southern Kaduna, Nigeria, early this week, Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported. While Fulani militia are blamed for the Sept. 26-27 attacks, many Fulani herdsmen live peaceably alongside Christians and other Muslims and are […]
Silas Yakuba Ali was pastor of of an evangelical church in Nigeria. By Diana Chandler KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) – Militant groups have killed at least 14 Christians, including an evangelical pastor, in southern Kaduna since Sept. 11 and have kidnapped a Catholic priest, the Premium Times of Nigeria reported. The macheted and gunshot body of […]
By Diana Chandler KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) – An additional 47 Nigerian Baptist school students kidnapped in July have been released, leaving captive 31 of the more than 120 originally taken, the Christian Association of Nigeria reported Saturday. Bandits previously described as Fulani herdsmen released 32 Bethel Baptist High School to their parents Friday, school administrator […]
In the days after suspected Fulani herdsmen kidnapped more than 120 Baptist school children in Kaduna, herdsmen are accused of killing at least 33 villagers and burning four churches and hundreds of homes in the state. International Christian Concern photo By Diana Chandler KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) — In six days of attacks after the kidnapping […]
By Diana Chandler KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) – About 125 students kidnapped from a Baptist church school in northern Nigeria are especially in danger because of their Christianity and the unwillingness of local authorities to pay a ransom, a leading persecution watchdog group told Baptist Press. “There have been many kidnappings of school children over the […]
“Can you not see the men in white fighting for us?”
Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram gunmen “are prowling villages, shooting and killing innocent Christians.”
In separate attacks on two primarily Christian communities in northeast Nigeria Jan. 29 and 27, Boko Haram killed at least 26 and wounded dozens of others, Morning Star News reported Jan. 29.