Ignorence Isn't Bliss
NIGERIA. Fulani Militia attacked the village Gonan Rogo during the night between 11 and 12 of May. At least 17 persons were killed and 6 were injured. The area is inhabited by the Adara people which is a large ethnic group in southern Kaduna. 55% of them are Christians and they mainly make their living... Continue Reading →
NIGERIA. ISIS has released a video in which they kill eleven Christians. Kidnappings are used by the terrorist groups to get ransom or to change the prisonerd for their arrested members (the authorities have never confirmed carrying out a prisoner swap. The video, which was released on December 26, may be a deliberate way to... Continue Reading →
CAMEROON. Christians were attacked in the early morning of Sunday last week by Fulani Militia. It's unknown how many were injured and killed. It took place in the city of Wum where 90% of the residents are Christian and Fulani youth have been encouraged by government actors to attack farmers there. The attackers dragged out... Continue Reading →
I have collected some articles and reports about Christian persecution that you might find interesting: 11 Christians Killed every day for Their Descision to Follow JesusAnnual report of the U.S. commission on International Religious Freedom Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for Persecuted ChristiansBritians war on Christianity: Part 1Nigeria... Continue Reading →
NIGERIA. According to the United Nations Centre for Peace and Disarmament the 500 million illegal weapons that flooded into West Africa after the Libyan crisis in 2011, 350 million (70%) ended up in Nigeria. Most of them ended up with the Fulani herders. Nice... A 19-year old Christian woman, Joy Danlami, became a victim of... Continue Reading →
The violence Christians are suffering in Nigeria have gathered attention due to the massacre in Christchurch as many questioned the medias hypocrisy. Even local media in Nigeria seldom report on the attacks. 6 000 persons were killed during 2018 and there wasn't any distress, no "thoughts and prayers" nor aany candlelit demonstrations in the west.... Continue Reading →
International Christian Concern has documented at least 60 attacks by Boko Harams and Fulani Militias in Nigeria during February. A total of 205 people in the Middle Belt and northern Nigeria were killed. Boko Haram was responsible for 126 deaths and 83 of them were civilians (mostly in Borno State). Fulani militants were also responsible... Continue Reading →
On February 9 ten churches in a village in southern Ethiopia were attacked by local Muslims. One church was destroyed and the property of all ten of them was burned (it's believed that the other buildings were spared because of the risk that they would harm houses owned by Muslims close by). Some Christians got... Continue Reading →
A church from the 1100s in Falköping, Sweden, was scrawled on. It was swastikas, the cross of St. Peter and the words Die Jew and Hitler. If the culprits are Nazis: why not go down to the mosque then? Do they expect to insult Jews in a Church? On February 11 a man by the... Continue Reading →
On February 16 the election will be held in Nigeria and current president Buhari hope to be re-elected. He has made promises to free Leah Sharibu and to stop the Fulani Militia, but nothing has happened. The last news came in October. There is no updated status report on Leah and on February 19 she... Continue Reading →
Kuwaiti Islamic cleric Othman al-Khamis has issued another statement in his weekly fatwa session by encouraging his followers to kill apostates. He has a long history of inciting hate towards Christians. The law in Kuwait technically prohibits defamation of the Abrahamic faiths, but as Islam is the state religion and there are only 267 Christian... Continue Reading →
