ISIS Affiliate ISWAP Executes Three Christians in Nigeria

June 7, 2024 — 6/7/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — Images of members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) executing three Christian men in Borno state, Nigeria, are circulating on social media....

Islamic Fulani Militants Kill Pastor, Wife, 3 Other Church Members

June 4, 2024 — 6/4/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — Within a week of meetings between the Christian Irigwe and Muslim Fulani leaders seeking peaceful relations, armed radical Islamic gunmen attacked a Christian community,...

Gunmen Attack Market in Predominantly Christian Community

May 31, 2024 — 5/31/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — As Nigerians celebrated Democracy Day on May 29, gunmen attacked the Maro Junction Market in Maro Ward, Kajuru local government area, Kaduna state. While...

ISIS Foments Persecution with Zeal to Conquer Again

May 25, 2024 — By Garret Baird JD, ICC Fellow In January 2024, the Islamic State, or ISIS, spokesman Abu Hadhayfah Al-Ansari catalyzed the global terror campaign under the slogan “kill them where you...

Catholic Priest Kidnapped in Nigeria

May 23, 2024 — 5/23/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — The Rev. Basil Gbuzuo, a well-respected Catholic priest in the Onitsha Diocese of Anambra State, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Wednesday, May 15....

350 Hostages Rescued from Boko Haram Extremists

May 21, 2024 — 5/21/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — Nigerian military forces rescued 209 children, 135 women, and six men from Boko Haram on Tuesday. Many of the hostages had been held captive...

Nine Students Kidnapped by Terrorists in Northern Nigeria

May 14, 2024 — 5/14/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — Gunmen recently invaded the campus of Confluence University of Science and Technology in Kogi state, Nigeria, and abducted nine students from their classrooms. The...

Calls for Justice Renewed on Second Anniversary of Christian Student’s Death

May 14, 2024 — 5/13/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — On May 12, 2022, a mob of angry Muslim students stoned Deborah Samuel Yakubu to death after the second-year Christian college student was accused...

Militant Fulani Violence Sparks Hunger Concerns Among Nigeria’s Christian Communities

May 9, 2024 — 5/9/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — Christian communities already weary of Islamic Fulani militant attacks are increasingly concerned that the violence could lead to food scarcity in Nigeria’s agriculturally rich...

Hope for a Peaceful Epilogue to Nigeria’s Violence

May 4, 2024 — By Greg Cochran, Ph.D., ICC Fellow Researchers entering the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., pass between two massive works of art: statues carved by sculptor Robert Aitken nearly a...

Pastor Murdered on Way to Church Conference

May 4, 2024 — 5/3/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — Armed “bandits” shot and killed Reverend Manasseh Ibrahim on Tuesday, April 23, in Kaduna state as he traveled to a church conference. The reverend served...

Christian Man Jailed, Forced to Convert to Islam

April 30, 2024 — 4/29/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — Zachariah, a Christian living in Nigeria, has been imprisoned since January and was forced to convert to Islam to be reunited with his family. ...

A Decade After #BringBackOurGirls Trended, Many ‘Chibok Girls’ Remain in Captivity

April 14, 2024 — 4/14/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — Ten years ago today, the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram broke into the Government Girls Secondary School in the village of Chibok in northeastern...

Christians Choose Love After Enduring Persecution During Ramadan

April 11, 2024 — 4/11/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) — As the month-long observance of Ramadan ended on April 9, Christians throughout Nigeria showed love to their Muslim neighbors despite experiencing persecution during the...

Nigerian Advocacy Group Calls for Terrorist Designation for Fulani Militants

April 11, 2024 — 4/11/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – For more than a decade, the people of Bokkos local government area, located in Nigeria’s Plateau state, have suffered from ongoing violent attacks and...

Alleged Fulani Militants Kill Four on Easter Monday in Nigeria

April 2, 2024 — 04/02/2024 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Four Christians in two northern Nigeria villages were killed by heavily armed attackers on Monday, a day after many believers celebrated Easter. Police would...