Boko Haram Kidnap Four Aid Workers in Borno StateJuly 5, 2020 — 07/05/2020 Sudan (International Christian Concern) – A video was released this past week showing four aid workers from different large international aid organizations. In the video, the four captives named...
Seminarian Murdered for Preaching Gospel to CaptorsMay 8, 2020 — 05/08/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Earlier this week, a Nigerian gang member who kidnapped a seminary student in January, admitted that the group killed the captive because he would...
How Two Young Women Survived Extremism in Burkina FasoApril 21, 2020 — 04/21/2020 Burkina Faso (International Christian Concern) – Al-Jazeera has released an article from an interview that they did with a young woman whose family had been part of a kidnapping...
Bishop’s Wife and Church Secretary Freed from Captivity in Kano, NigeriaMarch 24, 2020 — 03/24/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Saratu Zubairu, the wife of Bari Diocese Bishop Idris Ado Zubairu, and a diocesan secretary identified as Deborah were both released on Friday March...
Nigerian Girl Escapes Captors Who Forced Marriage and ConversionMarch 17, 2020 — 03/17/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – On March 12, the Hausa Christian Foundation (HACFO), released a statement that one young girl named Sadiya Amos was able to escape from kidnappers...
Seminarian Found Dead After Suspected Boko Haram KidnappingFebruary 7, 2020 — 02/07/2020 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Nigerian Christians are mourning the death of 18-year-old seminarian, Michael Nnadi, who was kidnapped along with three others studying at Good Shepherd Seminary in...
Nigerian Schoolgirls and Teachers Released after Torture and RansomNovember 11, 2019 — 11/11/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Six girls and two staff members from a Christian-run high school in north-central Nigeria were kidnapped just over one month ago. These girls and...
38 Aid Workers Killed by Boko Haram Since 2011October 29, 2019 — 10/29/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – There have been 38 aid workers killed in Northeast Nigeria since 2011 when the conflict turned truly deadly. However, nearly one third of all...
Nigerian Government: Leah Sharibu Alive, Negotiations OngoingSeptember 4, 2019 — 09/04/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Only a month ago, a video was released showing 6 aid workers who had been kidnapped in Nigeria. In the video, a woman named...
Kidnapping Christians for Ransom Continues to Plague NigeriaAugust 27, 2019 — 08/27/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – So far this month, there have been at least 4 reported cases of abduction of clergy this month in Kaduna State alone. The first...
Boko Haram Kidnapped Nearly 1 Person a Day in Niger this YearAugust 13, 2019 — 08/13/2019 Niger (International Christian Concern) – It has been reported that Boko Haram has kidnapped 179 people in Niger this year. Of those, the majority are young women and girls....
Priest Killed in Southern Nigeria by Unknown GunmenAugust 4, 2019 — 08/04/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Father Paul Offu, the parish priest at St. James Greater Parish in Ugbawka, Enugu State, was killed Thursday afternoon. He was driving from a...
New Book Tells Tale of Chibok Girls, Asks Us to RememberJuly 11, 2019 — 07/11/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Journalist and now author, Isha Sesay, has released a book called Beneath the Tamarind Tree. In the book, she details out the stories and...
Boko Haram Murders 18 People in Northeast NigeriaFebruary 21, 2019 — 02/21/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – On February 18, Boko Haram(BH) militants in Borno State conducted an ambush on firewood merchants. During the attack, they killed 18 people. This comes...
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...
Suspected Al-Shabaab Attack in Kenya Leads to Kidnap of ForeignerNovember 27, 2018 — 11/27/2018 Kenya (International Christian Concern) – Suspected Al-Shabaab militants conducted an attack last week in Kilifi County, Kenya. During the attack, they injured five people by shooting randomly into crowds,...
