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...
Militia Kidnap Traditional Rulers and Kill Others in NigeriaAugust 11, 2022 — 08/11/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Peaceful Christian communities in Nigeria are becoming a burial ground, with Fulani militants targeting Christian farmers, Catholic priests, and traditional rulers. According to locals,...
United States Announces Policy Strategy Towards Sub-Saharan AfricaAugust 10, 2022 — 08/10/2022 South Africa (International Christian Concern) – In a speech at the University of Pretoria earlier this week, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out the U.S. strategy...
Opposition Leaders in Nigeria Threaten President with Impeachment Over Security SituationAugust 4, 2022 — 08/04/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – According to CNN, opposition leaders in Nigeria have threatened President Muhammadu Buhari with impeachment if he doesn’t improve the security situation in the country...
Governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna State Takes a Step into National PoliticsAugust 3, 2022 — 08/03/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Nasir El-Rufai has failed to prevent violence against Christians as governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state, and now, he’s attempting to have a say in...
Christian Ministry reports 6 Members Killed, 27 Kidnapped this YearAugust 2, 2022 — 08/02/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - According to a report from Morning Star News, six pastors were killed, and 27 congregants of the Evangelical Church Winning All were kidnapped this...
Second Attack in Seven Weeks in Nigeria’s Ondo StateAugust 1, 2022 — 08/01/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - ICC previously reported on the attack on a Catholic church that left dozens dead in Owo, a village in Nigeria's Ondo State. Just seven...
Two Chibok Girls Found Eight Years After AbductionJuly 28, 2022 — 7/31/2022 — (International Christian Concern) – After over eight years in captivity, two more Chibok school girls have been rescued. Now with children, the girls were forced into marriage with...
36 Christians Kidnapped in Nigeria’s Kaduna StateJuly 28, 2022 — 07/28/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - On Monday, July 25, an estimated 36 Christians were kidnapped from a village in Nigeria’s Kaduna state. The kidnappers are estimated to be Islamic...
ICC Supporting Children Orphaned by Radicalized Fulani MilitantsJuly 26, 2022 — 07/25/22 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Nigeria's northern region has become a burial ground for Christians as radicalized Islamic Fulani militias continue to target Christian farmers in the country's middle...
Catholic Priest Abducted in Nigeria’s Kaduna State was MurderedJuly 23, 2022 — By Valkyrie Armstrong 07/23/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Last week, ICC reported on two Catholic priests kidnapped in Kaduna State, Nigeria, on Friday, July 15. Unfortunately, ICC has since...
Pastor’s Family Killed in Northeastern NigeriaJuly 22, 2022 — 07/22/22 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Earlier this month, a pastor and his sons were killed by armed militants in northeast Nigeria. On July 5, gunmen shot Reverend Daniel Umaru,...
Catholic Priest Killed in NigeriaJuly 20, 2022 — 07/20/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Nigeria has witnessed an unprecedented level of insecurity despite a declaration in the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which states that...
Christians Struggle to Farm After Series of Attacks in Plateau StateJuly 19, 2022 — 07/19/2022 Nigeria – Nigeria’s northern state of Plateau is becoming a battleground between Christian farmers and radicalized herdsmen. The militant Fulani herdsmen have been chasing Christian farmers out of their...
Christians in Nigeria Attempt to Rebuild Their Farms Following Destruction by MilitantsJuly 15, 2022 — 07/15/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - Nigeria’s northern Plateau state is a battleground between Christian farmers and Muslim Fulani herdsmen. Muslim Fulani militants, Fulani herders who have become radicalized, have...
61,000 Boko Haram Suspects Held in Northern NigeriaJuly 14, 2022 — 07/14/2022 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) - On Tuesday, July 12, Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, announced that over 61,000 Boko Haram members and gang members were imprisoned in Nigerian prisons...
