A Muslim mob set fire to a church in a Christian village in Nigeria’s northern Kano State on April 1. Muslims were searching for a young man who had renounced Islam and re-converted to Christianity; they were looking to kill him. They also attacked Christian villagers with machetes and torched the home of a pastor, killing one of his daughters. The young man, Yahaya Joshua, … [Read more...]
Nigeria: 276 Christian Girls Kidnapped by Islamic Group May Have Been Slaughtered
All 276 Christian girls kidnapped and enslaved last year by the Islamic group, Boko Haram, may have been recently slaughtered, according to BosNewsLife: The U.N. human rights chief has warned that all 276 Christian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 may have been among a group of women slaughtered by Boko Haram last month, Nigerian media reported Monday, April … [Read more...]
‘Are You Muslim or Christian? Death to Christians!’
Muslim wholesale slaughter of Christians struck again on April 2 in Kenya. Gunmen from the Somali Islamic group, Al Shabaab—“the youth”—stormed Garissa University, singled out Christian students, and murdered them, some beheaded. A total of 147 people were killed in the attack—making this jihad more spectacular than the 2013 Al Shabaab attack on the Nairobi mall, which left … [Read more...]
Nigerian Christians ‘Really Paying Heavy Price for Their Faith’
What does the sub-Saharan African nation have in common with Arab nations like Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia; what does it have in common with Iran or Turkey or even east Asian nations like Indonesia; what does it have in common with sister African nations like Somalia and Sudan? Muslims persecuting Christians: "The residents of Maiduguri [in Muslim-majority … [Read more...]
Boko Haram: Kidnapped Christian Girls Forced Into Islam
Boko Haram leader Abubakr Shekau appears in the following video mocking America and others for being "so concerned about those girls," a reference to the 276 Nigerian girls that Boko Haram kidnapped last April. Shekau was probably puzzled why, of all of his Islamic organization's acts of terror targeting Christians, this particular kidnapping gained so much mainstream media … [Read more...]