Tag: Boko Haram

Cameroonians killed in Boko Haram attacks

May 12, 2015 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Nigeria

Boko Haram is suspected of killing at least 16 people and burning down 60 homes in villages on Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria, close to where the militants still hold positions. Esaje Djewed, a witness, told World Watch Monitor that there were some Christians among the dead. Another witness, Maina Gabriel, . . . Read More

Good news in Nigeria, but not for Chibok girls, yet

May 10, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Gwoza, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

Some of the hundreds of people, mostly women and children, rescued from Boko Haram camps in Nigeria’s Sambisa Forest, in early May 2015.Photo courtesy Open Doors International The tide may have turned against Boko Haram, at least for the moment. Camps in the Sambisa forest – said to be . . . Read More

Religious groups face extinction around world

May 4, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Anti-balaka, Armenian Genocide, Boko Haram, Central African Republic, Iraq, Kachin, Myanmar, Nigeria, Seleka, Sunni, Syria, UN

Campaigners warn that 100 years after the Armenian genocide there are still religious and ethnic groups facing extinction around the world. Groups identified include Christians in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and the Central African Republic (CAR), and the Christian Kachin in Myanmar. Each of these countries is listed on the 2015 . . . Read More

2014: A year of particular concern

April 30, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Anti-balaka, Bashar al-Assad, BJP, Boko Haram, Central African Republic, Chibok girls, Chin, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghar Wapsi, Hindu nationalism, India, Iran, Iraq, Islamic State, Kachin, Kano, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Potiskum, Rohingya, Saudi Arabia, Seleka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

If ever there were a year that made plain the importance of religious freedom, 2014 was it, according to the just-released annual report by an American government advisory group. “By any measure, the horrors of the past year speak volumes about how and why religious freedom and the protection of the . . . Read More

100s rescued from Boko Haram camps

April 29, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Women

The Nigerian army has rescued about 200 girls and 93 women from Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa Forest. Its spokesman said the freed hostages have yet to be fully identified but confirmed that the abducted Chibok schoolgirls were not among them. ‘The rescue is a rare piece of good news from northeast . . . Read More

A year gone

April 13, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Goodluck Jonathan, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Rebecca Dali, Stephen Davis

A year later, the parents are still crying. It was April 14, 2014 when militants of the radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped about 275 teenage school girls from Chibok, a predominantly Christian village in northeastern Nigeria. Some 232 of them are still missing, and for much of the year, . . . Read More

Hope – and anxiety – after Buhari’s win

April 9, 2015 Nigeria APC, Boko Haram, Elections, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, Pentecostals

Former Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress candidate for president, at Chatham House in London in February 2015.Flickr / Chatham House / Creative Commons Nigeria’s Christians, especially those in the troubled northeast, had a good reason to be worried that Muhammadu Buhari would be elected president. The former . . . Read More

The man who talks to Boko Haram

March 26, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Gwoza, Kidnapping, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Pentecostals, Stephen Davis, Trauma

One year after the kidnapping of 232 Nigerian girls, Australian Stephen Davis still says his contacts indicate complicity among Nigerian politicians. A year ago April 14, Boko Haram kidnapped 275 girls from the government secondary school in the Christian-dominated town of Chibok, Borno State. Students reported to the Chibok Government Secondary . . . Read More

‘Are you ready to renounce your Christian faith?’

March 25, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chad, Chibok girls, Damasak, Goodluck Jonathan, Niger, Nigeria, Potiskum

Anticipation of further violence as Nigeria begins voting for its next president is growing after the release of a new video shows Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau threatening that the election ‘will not happen in peace’. The chilling message will alarm Christians from Nigeria’s northern states who live in persistent . . . Read More

Boko Haram headlines hide persecution of Christians in mid-Nigeria, too

March 20, 2015 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Jos, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sharia, Taraba, Zamfara

The whole world has heard of the Chibok abduction: the 276 girls, predominantly Christians, kidnapped by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria in April 2014. There are 220 still missing. But the publicity surrounding this serves to hide a more widespread persecution of Christians in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. Nigeria . . . Read More

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