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ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in two churches that were were extensively damaged last year during religious violence in northern Nigeria were without places of worship Sunday, August 3, after authorities reportedly ordered them to vacate their premises.
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Catholics near Nigeria's northern Kano City were without a church Friday, June 20, after state employees and security forces demolished the building as part of a crackdown on Christian institutions in the country's predominantly Muslim states, local Christians and rights investigators said.
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in several areas of Nigeria's Kano State remained anxious Tuesday, March 4, after a government-backed mob armed with machetes reportedly set fire to a church building, before looting and dismantling the property, while a bishop narrowly escaped death, rights watchers said.
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- A tense calm returned Wednesday, February 13, to a town in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim North, where
at least two people, including a Christian policeman, were killed and two Christian teenagers injured during a violent protest sparked by a leaflet insulting the Prophet Mohammed, Christians and police said.
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- A Muslim man’s failed attempt to marry a young Christian woman resulted in him accusing her of “blasphemy”, triggering violence in the Nigerian town of Yana that left at least one person dead, seven Christians hospitalized and five churches destroyed, a Christian news agency reported Tuesday,
February 12.
BAUCHI, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Tensions remained high Saturday, December 15, in Nigeria’s north-eastern city of Bauchi after up to 10 people were killed, 30 critically injured and three churches reportedly set on fire in clashes between Muslim and Christian communities, BosNewsLife monitored.
