BREAKING NEWS: Hope Fading For Release 200 Nigeria Schoolgirls
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Hope was fading Sunday, October 19, that more than 200 Christian schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria would be released by the Islamist Boko Haram group, as violence continued despite an announced ceasefire agreement with the government.
Nigeria Churches Ask Protection After Militants Kill Dozens Of Christians
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Church leaders in Nigeria have urged their government to protect citizens in the country's troubled central and northern regions after scores of Christians, including pastors, were among those killed by Islamic militants in the latest reported crackdown on Christianity.
BREAKING NEWS: Kidnapped Girl Escapes Boko Haram Kidnappers
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- One of more than 200 Christian schoolgirls and women abducted by Islamist Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok has been freed, police and a parent have confirmed.
NEWS ALERT: Sudan Lawyers Of Christian Woman Prevented From Leaving Country
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
KHARTOUM, SUDAN (BosNewsLife)-- Lawyers who represented Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Christian mother whose conviction for apostasy and adultery was overturned, are being prevented from leaving Sudan following death threats, BosNewsLife learned Saturday, September 20.
Pastors Killed In Central African Republic
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (BosNewsLife)-- The United Nations has formally taken over peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) after renewed violence left scores dead, including two evangelical pastors.
NEWS ALERT: Third US Missionary Infected With Ebola Virus (Update)
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
MONROVIA, LIBERIA (BosNewsLife)– An American Christian doctor in Liberia has become the third known Christian missionary to suffer of the potentially deadly Ebola virus, a mission group confirmed.
MISSION WATCH: Italian Nuns Murdered In Burundi
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI (BosNewsLife)-- Pope Francis on Monday, September 8, expressed his condolences for the violent deaths of three elderly Italian nuns in Burundi, underscoring the dangers of missionaries working in the region.
NEWS ALERT: Nigeria Militants Declare Islamic Caliphate After Killing 100 Christians
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- The leader of Nigeria's feared Boko Haram group says a northeastern town is now part of an Islamic caliphate after his militants killed more than 100 civilians there, most of them Christians.
BREAKING NEWS: Two American Missionaries Survive Ebola, Discharged From Hospital (Mission Watch)
By BosNewsLife News Center with additional reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
MONROVIA/ATLANTA (BosNewsLife)-- Two American Christian missionaries were being discharged from a U.S. hospital Thursday, August 21, after being treated with an experimental drug for the potentially deadly Ebola virus, several sources said.
BREAKING NEWS: Christians Hiding In Northeast Nigeria After Massacre
By BosNewsLife Africa Service
ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christian residents were among those hiding Saturday, August 9, in hills of northeastern Nigeria after Islamic militants killed more than 100 people in and around the Christian town of Gwoza, rights activists and local residents said.