BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria Church Attacks Kill 7; Christians ‘Gunned Down’ (Update)
(ADDS CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILTY FROM BOKO HARAM, CHANGING LEAD AND DEATH TOLL)
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
JOS, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Islamic group Boko Haram claimed responsibility Sunday, June 10, for bombing a church and spraying another congregation with bullets in Nigeria's troubled northern and central region, killing at least seven people, including a suicide bomber and injuring over 40 others
Nigeria Christians Concerned After Islamists Escape Prison
By Joseph C DeCaro, BosNewsLife International Correspondent with BosNewsLife Africa Service
BAUCHI, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in northern Nigeria feared more attacks against them Thursday, September 16, after a radical Muslim sect freed hundreds of its supporters.
Nigeria Muslim Militants Attack School, Church
By BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Paul Jongas reporting from Nigeria
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Angry Muslim crowd torched a church and attacked a school in northern Nigeria during a protest against alleged blasphemy of Islam's Prophet Mohammad by a schoolteacher, local media reported Tuesday, April 1.
Residents of Nigerian City Traumatized After Easter Bombing (Special Feature)
By Lekan Oyekanmi, Voice of America Correspondent reporting from Kaduna, Nigeria
KADUNA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Still traumatized residents in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna are trying to resume their lives after an Easter Sunday car bombing that killed at many as 38 people. Scores of wounded and witnesses are attempting to come to grips with the attack.
BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria Church Attack Kills 22; More Unrest Reported
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Islamic militants armed with guns and explosives attacked a busy church service in a northeastern Nigerian village, killing at least 22 people, witnesses and church officials said Monday, January 27. The attackers reportedly set off bombs and fired into the congregation in the Catholic church in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state on Sunday, January 26, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four hour siege.
NEWS ALERT: Eritrea Detains 30 Christian Women, Group Says
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ASMARA, ERITREA (BosNewsLife)-- Security forces in Eritrea have detained dozens, mostly elderly, Christian women in the capital Amara as part of a crackdown on evangelical activities, an advocacy group said Monday, December 7.
NEWS ALERT: Third US Missionary Infected With Ebola Virus (Update)
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
MONROVIA, LIBERIA (BosNewsLife)– An American Christian doctor in Liberia has become the third known Christian missionary to suffer of the potentially deadly Ebola virus, a mission group confirmed.
NEWS WATCH: Clinton Questions Hungary’s Democratic Credentials
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has raised concerns with Hungary's government about legislative measures that critics claim limit press freedom and reduce powers of previously independent institutions. Clinton also expressed solidarity with pro-democracy activists in Egypt, where she says the U.S. will re-open talks with the controversial Muslim Brotherhood group.
Nigeria Militants Kill Dozens In School; Christian President Concerned
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nigeria's embattled Christian president condemned on Wednesday, February 26, an overnight attack on a school in the country's troubled north-east by suspected Islamist militants, in which as many as 40 students died.