Special Report: Violence Against Women
...women in CAR, as well as Nigeria, where the seven-year Islamist insurgency of Boko Haram has made that country the deadliest on earth. From victims to victors describes the scope...
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What is ‘traditional jihad’?
The worship auditorium of the Living Faith Church Damaturu, Nigeria, destroyed by Boko Haram. (World Watch Monitor) “Traditional jihad” is characterised by expansion through violent conquest, the belief that...
Vulnerability of women exploited to jeopardise Christian communities
...Criminal Court in the Hague as part of the case against Boko Haram of genocide against women and girls, for instance, see here. We all know that evoking the “Why”...
Boko Haram ‘more deadly terror group’ in 2014 than IS
Some 2.5 million people have been displaced by Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region since 2013 (Courtesy of Open Doors International) Boko Haram was the world’s deadliest terror group...
Fleeing Boko Haram – nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
...Nigeria’s north-eastern region which the military has re-taken from the Boko Haram insurgency, reveals an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the Lake Chad Basin region. In Europe, Syrian refugees with the...
Global Church meets to seek unity in face of persecution
...these examples prove that, beyond the current news headlines of Christian martyrs at the hands of IS and Nigeria’s militant Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, “Christianity continues in the 21st Century...
Nigeria: 338 rescued from Boko Haram
Nigeria’s army says that it has rescued 338 people – predominantly women and children – from Boko Haram. “Troops of 28 Task Force Brigade Nigerian Army deployed at Bitta and...
Report: Christianity contracting in MidEast, Africa
...in London, including teenager Victoria Youhanna, who escaped Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, and Timothy Cho, originally from North Korea. The Vatican sent Aid to the Church in Need a...
DR Congo – Islamist militias threaten central Africa too
...While attention has been focused on Nigeria’s radical Islamist group Boko Haram (whose attacks have spread to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger), a relatively unknown militant group has intensified attacks...
IS builds army of children
...join IS. (As World Watch Monitor has reported, this strategy has also been used by Boko Haram in Nigeria since 1999). In the summer of 2014, a three-year-old Christian girl...