Tag: Nigeria

INDIA is among 3 countries where persecution of Christians is said to increase in 2023, according to a report by Release International, a UK-based aid and advocacy organization.

Dr Khataza Gondwe, from Christian Solidarity Worldwide, told Premier's News Hour the threat is extreme: "We're talking about 750 people dead - at least - since the new President was inaugurated on May 29th.

AS Western nations evacuate their citizens from West Africa’s growing Ebola outbreak, some Christian leaders have begun to speak of the virus as a curse from God.

AT LEAST 20 women and girls were reported missing on Thursday at a nomadic settlement, Garkin Fulani, near Chibok town, Borno State, after gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram staged a midday abduction.

MORE than 200 Christian girls Boko Haram kidnapped a month ago from a state school are not the same girls shown in a ransom video the terrorists released, Nigerian relations expert Adeniyi Ojutiku told Baptist Press May 13.

The Defense Ministry says a military transport plane and chartered aircraft have carried home 831 of 1,620 Nigerians who had sought refuge at their country’s embassy in Bangui, the capital, in an ongoing operation that began Friday.

THE priests say they regret their former church is “allergic” to change. They believe priestly celibacy is neither rooted in the teachings of Jesus nor in the work of his apostles, who were married. And they insist celibacy does not work in an African context.

MULTIPLE sources have confirmed that about 25 to 30 Christian college students were massacred at a university in northeastern Nigeria late Monday night, causing Christians to pray for a "change of heart" among the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram to put a stop to the continued violence.

RELEASE International has come up with its report on likely persecution hotspots for Christians in 2012. And topping the list are China and North Korea, the two Communist countries which top most persecution lists.

NIGERIA, Africa’s most populous nation, split between Muslims and Christians, is set to vote on legislation criminalizing same-sex marriage.