Nigeria

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in volatile Nigeria were mourning their dead Good Friday, April 18, ahead of Easter, after Islamic militants killed more than 200 people and kidnapped hundreds others in the region, including two priests and a nun.

By BosNewsLife Special Correspondent Paul Jongas reporting from Nigeria ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- An Angry Muslim crowd torched a church and attacked a school in northern Nigeria during a protest against alleged blasphemy of Islam's Prophet Mohammad by a schoolteacher, local media reported Tuesday, April 1.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nigerian Christians were mourning their deaths Friday, March 21, as the full extend of Islamic militant attacks against them became clear, with at least 150 people killed since last weekend.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Nigeria's embattled Christian president condemned on Wednesday, February 26, an overnight attack on a school in the country's troubled north-east by suspected Islamist militants, in which as many as 40 students died.

(ADDS MORE DETAILS AND REPORTS OF MORE FIGHTING) By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Islamist militants killed more than 100 Christian villagers in northeastern Nigeria in the bloodiest single attack in months, officials confirmed Sunday, February 16. Fighters, believed to be linked to the Boko Haram group, began raiding the village of Izghe in Borno state late Saturday night, February 15, according to local witnesses and a Nigerian senator.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians and Muslims were grieving in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, February 4, after 11 Christians and a Muslim clerk along with his wife and child were murdered in separate attacks by Islamic militants.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- An apparently Christian family of seven was murdered when armed Fulani tribesmen attacked a village in Nigeria's southern Kaduna State, rights investigators said Friday, January 31. Advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide-Nigeria (CSW-N) said Manyekrun Village in the state's Kaura Local Government Area (LGA) was attacked late Thursday, January 30, as part of a wider Islamic campaign against Christians.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in Nigeria were mourning their dead Tuesday, January 27, after nearly 100 people were killed by suspected Islamic militants in the country's troubled northeast, including at a church service. The fighters, who were believed to be members of the Islamist group Boko Haram, killed 22 people by setting off bombs and firing into the congregation in the Catholic church of Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state on Sunday, January 25, officials said.

By BosNewsLife Africa Service ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Suspected Islamic militants armed with guns and explosives attacked a busy church service in a northeastern Nigerian village, killing at least 22 people, witnesses and church officials said Monday, January 27. The attackers reportedly set off bombs and fired into the congregation in the Catholic church  in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state on Sunday, January 26, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four hour siege.

By BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos and Paul Jongas reporting from Nigeria ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- At least 30 people were feared dead Tuesday, January 7, after suspected Islamic gunmen attacked a Christian village in central Nigeria, local officials and survivors said.