A retired Anglican archbishop and his driver are still missing after they disappeared in southern Nigeria on a trip to a funeral, according to reports. The Rev Godwin Okpala, retired archbishop of ...

Fulani herdsmen killed 48 Christians in central Nigeria’s Benue state between 24 November and 1 December, sources said. The gunmen killed 18 Christians, including women and children, who were on ...

On 1 March 2018, Islamic militants attacked a displacement camp in Borno state. As a result of the attack, three UNICEF workers were killed, along with eight soldiers. During the attack, a Christian w...

Benin is a small country bordering western Nigeria. It is the birthplace of voodoo, and Christianity is viewed by many in the north as a threat to their traditional beliefs. Christianity is considered...

Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in central Nigeria’s Benue State on Wednesday 9 October and two others in another part of the state on 3 October, local sources said. On 9 October herdsman i...

In Northern Nigeria, where Christian-Muslim tensions run deep, a young man named Salisu Bala made a decision that made his family want to kill him. Bala, 32, an independent artisan from Angwan Rogo...

Islamic terror group Boko Haram recently shared on social media a video of Pastor Paul Musa pleading for his life as an armed, masked Islamic extremist stands behind him. Boko Haram abducted the 5...

Suspected Fulani herdsmen killed a pastor, his wife and three other Christians at about midnight on 2 June in Plateau state, central Nigeria, sources said. The raiders with heavy weaponry attacked ...

On 18 April, sources claim the Fulani militia attacked residents of Christian-majority villages in Plateau State, who were trying to defend their homes. In an unfolding situation with conflicting acco...

From 16 to 19 February, suspected Islamic terrorists killed 23 people, injured 10, kidnapped five, and set ablaze 28 houses across multiple villages in Nigeria. It is unknown if these are coordinated ...

Suspected Nigerian Fulani militants attacked 21 Christian villages in the Bokkos, Barkin Ladi, and Mangu counties of Plateau State on Christmas Eve. It has been reported that 84 communities in Bokkos ...

Gunmen abducted more than 100 people from the Mutunji community in Zamfara State in northwest Nigeria on the weekend for not paying a 'tax' imposed by the bandits. A leader in the community was also k...

In May 2022, Rhoda Ya'u Jatau was arrested by security agents on accusations of causing a disturbance, cyberstalking and showing "contempt of religious creed", for sharing her dismay on social media o...

A new study has revealed that Christianity is continuing to spread across the globe despite believers facing extreme persecution for their faith. The 2023 ‘Persecutors of the Year’ report by anti-...

Residents from Kaduna State, Nigeria, report that at about 11am on 7 October, terrorists kidnapped more than 30 Christians at gunpoint as they worked on a communal farm in Chikuri, Chikun County. �...

Of the 5,500 Christians who were killed last year because of their faith, 90 percent were Nigerian, according to the Catholic news service, Crux and the International Society for Civil Liberties and R...

More than 1,000 Christians in Nigeria have been killed during attacks by Islamic extremists in 2023. Boko Haram, Fulani militants, and other extremist groups have kidnapped and killed Christians for n...

Despite warnings of an attack earlier in the week and the presence of security guards, 21 villagers were killed by suspected radical Fulani militants in north-central Nigeria last Thursday night. W...

In the last three weeks, 37 Christians have been killed by Fulani Militants and other terrorist groups in Nigeria’s Benue state. The first in this series of attacks occurred on 30 June, where gun...

Suspected Fulani militants killed eight people, including an eight-month-old baby girl, last Sunday night in the Vwang District of Jos. The gunmen raided the village, shooting sporadically at the ...

A recent study has found that upwards of 52,250 Christians have been murdered in Nigeria since the Boko Haram Insurgency began nearly fourteen years ago. The investigative report entitled ‘Martyred ...

On Sunday 14 May, Leah Sharibu spent her 20th birthday the same way she spent the last six: in captivity. Leah was just 14 when she was kidnapped by Boko Haram along with 110 schoolgirls from the G...

Two more Chibok schoolgirls have been rescued after more than nine years of captivity. The two survivors now in their 20s, Hauwa Maltha and Esther Marcus, were forced into marriage with the Boko Ha...

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law recently released a report estimating that, in 2022 alone, over 5,000 Nigerian Christians were killed and over 3,000 we...

In northeast Nigeria, Pastor Jerry Hinjari of Christ Nation International was abducted from his home in Yola, Adamawa state around midnight on Wednesday 25 January, and his body was found on a roadsid...

International observers are expressing concern that Nigeria’s upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for 25 February and followed by state elections on 11 March, may be de...