Christian Daily International/ Morning Star News January 1, 2024 Original Article ABUJA, Nigeria — Unidentified terrorists on Thursday killed eight Christians in Taraba state, Nigeria, after 13 others were slain the previous week, sources said. The assailants attacked four predominantly Christian villages in Ussa County at about at about 4 p.m., residents said. “While we are…
Peter Pinedo December 27, 2023 National Catholic Register Original Article According to accounts by several local news sources and human rights activists, 198 Christians were killed in a series of terror attacks in 26 Christian communities in Plateau. Catholic and Nigerian leaders are demanding government action as Christian villages in the central Nigerian state of…
Linda Bordoni December 27, 2023 Original Article Armed groups kill scores of villagers in Nigeria’s north-central Plateau state in the long-running conflict between nomadic herders and farmers. At least 140 people were killed and others are missing after a series of attacks by gunmen on remote villages in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau state. Officials and survivors…
Mathew Santucci Decemeber 26, 2023 Catholic News Agency Original Article During Tuesday’s Angelus on the occasion of the feast of St. Stephen — the first Christian martyr — Pope Francis renewed his call for peace and brought attention to the persecution that Christians are facing around the world. “Today, 2,000 years later, unfortunately we see…
Jan Figel, Former EU Commissioner and FoRB Special Envoy Human Rights Without Frontiers December 13, 2023 Original Article HRWF (10.12.2023) – Today, the agenda of human rights is hijacked by various groups representing ideologies, violent extremism or ethical relativism. We also tend to forget or neglect our human duties towards the other and towards society….
