Militants Stop Christians from Worshiping in NigeriaOctober 8, 2022 — 10/08/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Northwest of Nigeria is becoming home to consistent violence against Christians, who are relentlessly persecuted. Nigeria's government is largely silent as militants, known as...
ISWAP Terrorists Kill Two Christian Business OwnersOctober 5, 2022 — 10/06/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - On September 24, two militants suspected to belong to the terror group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) shot and killed two Christians in...
Exiled with a Second ChanceSeptember 21, 2022 — 09/21/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – The breadbasket of Nigeria is starving. Christians in Benue State have suffered gruesome attacks by the Fulani militants, a radical Muslim militia group, forcing...
Nigerian Governor El-Rufai Comments on Military Offensive Against TerroristsSeptember 18, 2022 — 09/18/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Speaking at the Kaduna Book and Art festival earlier this week, Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai made reference to a six-week military offensive against...
Five Dead After Gunmen Open Fire on Senator’s ConvoySeptember 13, 2022 — 09/13/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - On Sunday, September 11, unidentified gunmen attacked the convoy of a Nigerian senator who was traveling through Anambra state, located in the south of the...
Nigeria’s Governor El-Rufai Admits Failure to Suppress TerrorismSeptember 10, 2022 — 09/10/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – In a memo to Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari earlier this year, Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai was forced to admit that terrorists have only...
U.S. Commission Says Religious Freedom is Deteriorating in NigeriaSeptember 9, 2022 — 09/09/2022 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Earlier this week, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its latest report on the state of religious freedom in Nigeria....
Judge Delays Trial Again in Christian Journalist CaseSeptember 8, 2022 — 09/08/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Earlier this week, a judge in Nigeria’s Kaduna State failed to attend the trial of journalist Luka Binniyat, further prolonging the case after months...
Christian Member of Nigeria’s Youth Corps Killed in Brutal AttackSeptember 7, 2022 — 09/07/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Samaila Sabo Awudu, 28, a Christian man posted in Yola, Nigeria, for his youth corps service duty, was killed on August 26. The...
ICC Attempts to Visit Nigerian Village Bombed by HelicopterSeptember 2, 2022 — 09/02/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Last week, ICC sent one of its Nigerian staffers to visit the site of an attack earlier this summer in Nigeria’s central state of...
ICC Helps Cover Medical Costs for Gunshot Victim in NigeriaAugust 26, 2022 — 08/26/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - On August 28, 2021, radicalized Islamic Fulani militants killed Christian Melody Peter’s husband and two children, one of whom was pregnant, in an attack...
Four Nuns Kidnapped in Southern NigeriaAugust 22, 2022 — 08/22/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Yesterday, four nuns were abducted while traveling on a highway in southeast Nigeria. The sisters were on their way to Sunday mass when a...
Human Rights Reporter Arrested in NigeriaAugust 20, 2022 — 08/20/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Luka Binniyat, a Nigerian Christian human rights reporter, has been arrested for writing an article criticizing the Nigerian government for not stepping up to...
16-year-old Christian Girl Kidnapped and Forcibly Converted to IslamAugust 18, 2022 — 08/17/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Child grooming is becoming more prevalent in Nigeria due to the government's refusal to protect Christian girls. Though the legal age of consent has...
Fulani Militants Disrupt Christian Farming Community, Kill Six in NigeriaAugust 16, 2022 — 08/16/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – It was a cloudy night, and villagers in one Christian farming community in Nigeria’s Benue state were about to sleep. Suddenly, militants arrived, scattering...
Five Suspects Arrested in Nigeria for Catholic Church Massacre August 15, 2022 — 08/15/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) Five suspects were arrested for attacking a Catholic church in Nigeria and killing approximately 40 people in June. The announcement came last week, two months...
