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Nigeria elections: Whomever wins, Christians hope for justice and security

February 15, 2019 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Dapchi, Elections, Fulani herdsmen, Leah Sharibu, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Yobe

Burned church in a village in Nigeria's southern Kaduna after an attack by suspected Fulani gunmen. Violence attributed to militant herdsmen in Nigeria reached a record high last year. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

According to the UN, more than 2 million people have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgence in northeast Nigeria. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) As Nigerians are preparing to go...

Key trends show in 2019 List of countries where it’s most difficult to live as a Christian

January 16, 2019 Global News -- No Particular Country BJP, Blasphemy, Boko Haram, China, Egypt, Hindu nationalism, India, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Minorities, Nigeria, Religious freedom, World Watch List

WWL 2019 key trends, gender, China, woman (photo: VPA)

...has inspired, or infiltrated, numerous splinter groups such as Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a deadly group which broke away from Nigeria’s Boko Haram, and which also enslaves Christian...

Nigeria’s herder-farmer conflict escalates due to government inaction – Amnesty International

December 18, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Nigeria, Plateau

Since 2017 conflicts between Nigeria's herders and farmers have become increasingly violent and deadly, says Amnesty. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...due to climate change and the influx of refugees on the run from the Islamic Boko Haram insurgency. Attackers appear well organised and armed with sophisticated weapons. Read more Nigeria:...

Pakistan joins US list of worst religious freedom violators

December 13, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, China, Comoros, Eritrea, Iran, Minorities, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Religious freedom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan

Burial of victims of a suicide attack on the Methodist Bethel Church in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday 17 December 2017 in which at least 9 people were killed. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...specialised religious education. The US also designated nine organisations – Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, the Houthis, ISIS, ISIS-Khorasan, and the Taliban – as...

Prince Charles bypassing Jos ‘robbed Nigeria’s Christians of opportunity to create awareness about our travails’

November 9, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Jos, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Plateau, Prince Charles

...Boko Haram in recent years. In Plateau, one of the states most affected by the violence, attacks have been taking place on an almost daily basis. In June, the violence...

Lawyer: Asia Bibi is on a plane, destination unknown

November 7, 2018 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, Quran, Salmaan Taseer, Sheikhupura

Asia Bibi is finally free, almost one decade after she was first imprisoned. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...in Sheikhupura, outside Lahore in eastern Pakistan. It was hot. She brought water to a female co-worker, who objected that the touch of a Christian had made the water haram,...

Chibok girls last seen in northern Cameroon

October 29, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Pictures of 82 girls freed in 2017; 112 are still un-accounted for

...on the phone, Jumai revealed that in the camp Boko Haram militants do not allow free movement for their wives. She said only one of the girls, Dorcas Yakubu, who...

Nigeria: Stop ‘rumour mongering’ that led to Kaduna violence, says church leader

October 23, 2018 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nigeria

A vigilante walks through the village of Bakin Kogi, in Kaduna state, northwest Nigeria, where four people were killed in an attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen in February 2018. (Photo: Getty Images)

...said. A report published in July by the International Crisis Group said the conflict had become the country’s gravest security challenge, claiming six times more lives than the Boko Haram...

Chibok girls documentary airing tonight in the US

October 22, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Leah Sharibu, Nigeria, USA

...release from Boko Haram captivity will show tonight on the US satellite TV channel HBO. Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram, a co-production of HBO, BBC2 and ARTE France, will...

Nigerian Islamist extremists kill aid worker ‘for work for Red Cross’, Christians ‘slaves for life’

October 16, 2018 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Justin Welby, Leah Sharibu, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Hauwa Leman (Photo: Twitter) In Nigeria, a faction of Boko Haram – the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) – has killed a second aid worker kidnapped eight months ago....

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