KANO, Nigeria—A Nigerian Catholic priest was abducted from his rectory in the town of Zambina in the northern state of Kaduna in the early hours of Monday, the local Catholic diocese said on Monday. It said parishioners went to look for Father Emmanuel Silas after waiting in vain for him to conduct the morning mass….
Top Nigerian Senator Charged in UK Over Child Organ-Harvesting Plot
A top Nigerian senator and his wife have been charged in the UK over an alleged plot to bring a child into the country for organ-harvesting. London’s Metropolitan police said that Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55 were charged on Thursday and are due to appear in court in Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court later the…
Nigerian Terrorists Fire at Villagers From a Helicopter, Eye Witnesses Say
It was a sunny Sunday morning in Maikori, a small farming town in the south of Kaduna state, in Nigeria’s northwest region. Rev. Denis Sani, pastor of the Evangelical church Winning All as well as a leader of a 50-man civilian watch unit, was giving a sermon. A few minutes before noon on June 5,…
Nigerian Terrorists Fire at Villagers From Helicopter, Eyewitnesses Say
It was a sunny Sunday in Maikori, a small farming town in the south of Nigeria’s Kaduna state. Rev. Denis Sani, the pastor of the evangelical church Winning All as well as a leader of a 50-man civilian watch unit, was giving a sermon. A few minutes before noon on June 5, Sani got news…
Nigerian Woman Who Converted to Christianity Will Be Killed If Deported From Canada, Says Religious Rights Advocate
A Nigerian family that fled to Canada four years ago to escape persecution for their Christian faith is facing deportation after the federal government rejected their application to remain in Canada. Morufat Ogunkoya, her husband, and their son and two daughters fled Nigeria in 2018 after she converted from Islam to Christianity and her father,…
Gunmen Kill Eight, Kidnap 38 in Nigeria Church Attacks: Church Officials
KANO, Nigeria—Gunmen killed eight people and kidnapped 38 others in an attack on two churches in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday, an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Monday, weeks after a similar deadly attack in the southwest. The attack occurred during the morning service of a Catholic and…
Gunmen Kill 8, Kidnap 38 in Nigeria Church Attacks: Church Officials
KANO, Nigeria—Gunmen killed eight people and kidnapped 38 others in an attack on two churches in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday, an official from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Monday, weeks after a similar deadly attack in the southwest. The attack occurred during the morning service of a Catholic and…
Nigeria Battered by Rash of Blasphemy Murders
A growing wave of blasphemy attacks by Islamic extremists in Nigeria has stirred anger and threatened to divide Africa’s most populous nation. Two gruesome mob lynchings over alleged blasphemy on May 12 and June 4 have roiled the country and stirred calls for global action. Close to one dozen people have been killed for alleged…
Nigeria Suspects ISIS of Killing 40 in Catholic Church
ABUJA—Nigerian authorities suspect the insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) carried out a massacre in a Catholic church on Sunday in which 40 people were killed, Interior Minister Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said on Thursday. Assailants wielding AK-47 rifles and explosives attacked the congregation at St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, in southwestern Ondo…
Governor Points to Foreign-born Jihadists Behind Catholic Church Massacre
LAGOS—The subject was Pentecost, but the message was bullets that killed more than 40 people in a Catholic congregation in Nigeria’s relatively serene Ondo state. The priest was just giving the benediction at the end of a mass to celebrate Pentecost Sunday when at least four shooters detonated a bomb and began spraying bullets among trapped worshippers. The…
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