Stories tagged with: fulani herdsmen

• 25 Christians killed in Nigeria's Middle Belt in April

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, May 05, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  NIGERIA (BP) -- Militant Fulani herdsmen killed at least 25 Christians in several attacks in Nigeria's Middle Belt in April as the local government did little to intervene, Morning Star News reported.

  The unfettered attacks could lead to a regional civil war in Nigeria's Middle Belt, religious liberty advocate International Christian Concern said Tuesday (May 5). Read More

• Boko Haram kidnaps, kills pastor amid renewed attacks

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, January 21, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  Northeast Nigeria (BP) -- Boko Haram insurgents have killed a Nigerian pastor they kidnapped weeks ago, news media said Tuesday (Jan. 21), amid a resurgence in northeast Nigeria of the splintered terrorist group blamed for Christian genocide.

  Terrorists killed Lawan Andimi yesterday (Jan. 20), according to Today.NG which described Andimi as a Michika pastor who led a local chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Read More

• One Christian killed, 12 kidnapped in Nigeria

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, October 11, 2019 (3 years ago)

  

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  KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) -- A Baptist woman is dead and 12 Christians including church members, school students and teachers remain kidnapped in two successive incidents in Kaduna, Nigeria, widely attributed to militant Fulani herdsmen.

  In the latest incident, herdsmen killed Ezra Haruna of Godiya Baptist Church in Ungwan Barau village and kidnapped four of her fellow church members, Morning Star News reported Thursday (Oct. 10). Many residents fled into nearby bushes, Morning Star said. Read More

• 280 Christians killed in attacks in Nigeria

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, March 18, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  JOS, Nigeria (BP) -- Christian deaths are spiraling in Nigeria as militant Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists escalate their attacks, according to reports from religious liberty watchdog groups active there.

  As many as 280 people were killed in Christian communities in several attacks spanning February through mid-March in Nigeria's Middle Belt, according to varying reports from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Morning Star News and International Christian Concern (ICC). Militants destroyed hundreds of homes and displaced residents. Read More

• 40 Christians killed in attacks in Nigeria

  by Morning Star News/Nigeria Correspondent , posted Thursday, February 28, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  JOS, Nigeria (BP) -- At least 32 people were killed in a Muslim Fulani herder attack on a Christian area of north-central Nigeria on Tuesday (Feb. 26), sources told a Morning Star News correspondent.

  The early morning assault on villages in and around Maro, in Kajuru County of Kaduna state, came after a Feb. 10 herdsmen attack on Angwan Barde, in the same county, that killed 10 Catholic Christians along with an unborn child. Read More

• Christian 'genocide': naming Nigeria's mass slaughter

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, August 06, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  MIDDLE BELT, Nigeria (BP) -- The mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria is calculated genocide abetted by the government in the nation that is Africa's most Christian, cries a growing number of leaders calling on the United States to intervene.

  Evangelical John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, is among the latest to describe as genocide the killing of some 6,000 Christians this year alone in Nigeria by jihadist Fulani herdsmen aided by resurging Boko Haram terrorists. Read More

• Pastor: 120 Nigerian Christians killed leaving funeral

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, June 27, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  PLATEAU, Nigeria (BP) -- Armed Fulani herdsmen killed 120 Christian mourners and injured others leaving a weekend funeral in Plateau State, a Nigerian pastor reported, although varying casualty counts exceed 200.

  "Fulani people attacked our members who attended the burial of the father (of) one of our clergy," Pam Chollom, a pastor who leads the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) Regional Church Council, told the Premium Times of Nigeria June 24. "The armed Fulani ambushed the sympathizers on their way back from the burial, attacked and killed 34 persons from Nekan village, 39 others from Kufang, and 47 people from Ruku village." Read More

• 86 die in Fulani herdsmen clashes with Christian farmers

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, June 25, 2018 (4 years ago)

  

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  PLATEAU, Nigeria (BP) -- At least 86 people were killed June 23 in Nigeria's Plateau State in clashes reportedly between Muslim Fulani herdsmen and Christian farmers, Plateau police said.

  Six others were injured and 50 homes were destroyed, Plateau Police Commissioner Undie Adie confirmed the following day, although it was not clear how many of the dead were farmers. The weekend violence capped three days of attacks on Christian farmers in Plateau villages, police told the Guardian, and is the latest in an ages-old feud for land rights. Read More

• Group seeks new U.S. religious freedom post for Nigeria

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, March 08, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  FALLS CHURCH, Va. (BP) -- A religious and secular coalition will urge Congress to create a U.S. coordinator for religious freedom in Nigeria as terrorism against Christians and other religious minorities intensifies in the African nation.

  Termed the special coordinator for religious minorities and terrorism, the post would serve as a direct link between U.S. and Nigerian governments to address religious persecution, terrorism and the resulting economic crisis in Nigeria, a coalition representative told Baptist Press today (March 8). Read More

• Christians killed after laws limit Fulani herdsmen

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, February 08, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  MIDDLE BELT, Nigeria (BP) -- At least 170 Christian farmers and Muslim Fulani herdsmen have died this year in Nigeria's Middle Belt in a centuries-old feud driven by Muslims seeking to graze their cattle on farmland, Christian advocacy groups have reported.

  Advocacy group Amnesty International (AI) counted 170 killings through Jan. 30 in Adamawa, Benue, Taraba, Ondo and Kaduna states. Many killed were Christian farmers attacked by herdsmen seeking grazing land for their cattle, but others died in retaliatory clashes. Read More