Nigeria

By Eric Leijenaar, BosNewsLife Senior Special Correspondent reporting from the Netherlands AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (BosNewsLife)-- Translators of U.S.-based Wycliffe Associates have launched two Bible translation projects in countries where evangelism, or even reading a Bible, is forbidden.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)– Nigerian Islamic militants have threatened a massive bloodbath after killing at least two Christians in recent days, forcing thousands of people to flee their villages along Nigeria's northeast, refugees said Saturday June 22.

By BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Paul Jongas reporting from Nigeria with additional reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- At least hundreds of residents began fleeing northeastern Nigeria Sunday, October 21, after three days of Islamic attacks against churches and other targets left dozens dead.

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife with additional reporting by BosNewsLife's Paul Jongas in Nigeria ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Dozens of students, including Christians, have been killed by Islamic militants in northeastern Nigeria, leading missionaries told BosNewsLife Wednesday, October 3.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- With a deadline approaching to leave their homes or be killed, Christians in northern Nigeria were urged Tuesday, January 3, not to retaliate against Islamic violence.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Thousands of people, most of them Christians, remain displaced in Nigeria's farming belt where hundreds of people have been killed by Fulani cattle herders backed by Islamic terror groups, BosNewsLife learned.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service JOS, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- At least some 400 people have been killed and thousands forced to flee their homes in the central Nigerian city of Jos where Christians and Muslims clashed in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years.Fighting began Friday, November 28, amid a dispute over the result of a local election, witnesses said Saturday, November 29.

By BosNewsLife Africa  Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Paul Jongas reporting from Nigeria ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected herdsmen from the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group stormed an evangelical church and fired shots during a New Year's Eve worship service in central Nigeria, killing as many as three people and injuring 16 others, reports said Thursday, January 2.

With reporting by Nathan Morley ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Militants of the Islamic State group (IS) have released a video purportedly showing the murder of 11...

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians prepared for a difficult weekend in Nigeria amid reports of a second bomb attack on a church close to the capital Abuja following deadly violence by suspected Muslim militants that already killed several Christians.