Priest’s Kidnap Four Months Ago Still Hurting CommunityFebruary 14, 2019 — 02/14/2019 Niger (International Christian Concern) – It has been four months since Father Luigi Macalli from the Society for African Missions was kidnapped from Bomoanga, Niger. During the kidnapping, another...
Boko Haram Kidnapped 15 Girls from NigerNovember 30, 2018 — 11/30/2018 Niger (International Christian Concern) – Boko Haram has continued it reign of terror in Northeastern Nigeria and the lake chad regions of Cameroon and Niger. Late last week, the...
Italian Priest Kidnapped in Niger then Moved to Burkina FasoSeptember 26, 2018 — 09/26/2018 Niger (International Christian Concern) – On September 17, 2018, Islamic extremists entered the home of an Italian priest living and evangelizing in Niger. Rev. Pierluigi Maccalli, a member of...
US Missionary to Niger Still Alive After 20 Months in CaptivityJune 7, 2018 — ICC Note: Jeff Woodke, a US missionary based in Niger, was kidnapped by an Islamic Extremist group in 2016. This Monday, 4 June, the president of Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou, has...
Niger Churches Rebuilt Three Years After Incident, Christian Confidence NotJanuary 25, 2018 — ICC Note It has been three years since the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo incident on Paris, France. This incident led to riots and destruction in the West African nation...
Pastors Daughter Kidnapped then Saved in Southern NigerOctober 18, 2017 — ICC Note The 17 year old daughter of a pastor who went missing on 16 Oct, 2017 in South Eastern Niger, has been rescued. She was on her way to...
9 Killed, 30 Abducted in Suspected Boko Haram AttackJuly 3, 2017 — ICC Note: Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed nine and abducted more than 30, in an attack on a southern Niger refugee village. The village of Ngalewa is located about 50...
Niger’s Peaceful Area is Witnessing a Distrubing Trend in Christian PersecutionMarch 14, 2017 — ICC Note: Although Niger is a peaceful area for Christians, according to Mission Network, there is a disturbing trend regarding kidnappings. Four months ago, American missionary Jeff Woodke was kidnapped;...
Boko Haram Continues to Terrorize AfricaSeptember 14, 2016 — ICC Note: Boko Haram has killed more than 20,000 innocent people during their terrorist attacks. As a result, millions of civilians have been forced to flee their countries and leave...
Boko Haram Attack Leaves 5 People Dead in NigerSeptember 6, 2016 — ICC Note: Boko Haram attacked the village of Toumour in Niger, where they killed five people and left many others injured. This is the first attack in three months carried...
Thousands of Pregnant Women Displaced by Boko Haram in NigerJune 29, 2016 — ICC Note: In early June, Boko Haram led attacks in southeastern Niger, which displaced roughly 75,000 people, including 3,000 pregnant girls and women. These women are now in dire need...
Four Killed, Church and Shops Burnt as Religious Violence Breaks Out in NigerMay 31, 2016 — ICC Note: A 24 year-old Christian man in Pandogari, Niger State was killed by a mob after violence broke out throughout the town. The man, Methodus Chimaije Emmanuel, was claimed...
Two Years Since Chibok Abduction, Suffering Parents Grip Fading HopeApril 14, 2016 — 04/14/16 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) - International Christian Concern (ICC) remembers the second anniversary of the now-infamous Boko Haram kidnapping of the Chibok girls on April 14, 2014 with...
Boko Haram Crisis: ‘Huge Rise’ in Child Suicide BombersApril 12, 2016 — ICC Note: Boko Haram has increased the number of child suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad reason by eleven times since 2014, according to reports. The dreadful...
Dead Man’s Market and the Boy Gangs of Niger; Hotbed of Boko Haram RecruitmentMarch 9, 2016 — ICC Note: Zinder, Niger has become a hotbed of recruitment for Boko Haram. Poverty and social exclusion compels disenfranchised youth into a life of crime as gangs loot, rape, and...
West African Bishops Concerned About Persecution of ChristiansMarch 2, 2016 — ICC Note: A conference of West African bishops has concluded in Accra, Ghana with the plenary body focusing most of their concern on Christian persecution from radical Islamist terrorism in...
