THE bombing at St. Theresa’s Catholic church in Madalla on Abuja’s outskirts during a packed Christmas mass was the deadliest of a series of Christmas attacks on Nigerian churches and other targets by the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram.
WITH 2.18 billion followers, Christianity has become a truly global religion over the last 100 years as rapid growth in developing nations offset declines in Christianity’s traditional strongholds, according to a report released recently.
EVEN as Islamists claimed an overwhelming victory in the initial stage of Egypt’s first post-revolution elections, Israeli officials expressed concern over the future of times with Cairo.
NIGERIA, Africa’s most populous nation, split between Muslims and Christians, is set to vote on legislation criminalizing same-sex marriage.
WITH Islamist groups expected to do well in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, many Coptic Christians are concerned that their limited rights will come under greater threat.
THE world’s leaders echoed the United Nations’ condemnation of Khartoum’s bombings of a refugee camp in South Sudan’s Unity state – a charge Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir denies.
A radical Islamic group, Boko Haram, killed more than 150 people and bombed 11 churches in the northern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Nov. 4, according to International Christian Concern.
CHRISTIANS in Nigeria are saying, ‘Enough is enough.’ The Christian Association of Nigeria convened an emergency meeting this week in response to the Boko Haram’s latest violence.
Dr. Leo Godzich, an associate pastor at Phoenix First Assembly of God , was killed Thursday along with three others, when the vehicle he was traveling in was crushed between two trucks on the Jinja-Iganga highway in Uganda.
MUSLIM extremists, along with members of the Nigerian army, allegedly killed 24 Christians during mid-August in Nigeria’s Plateau state, according to Compass Direct News.
