A militant group in Nigeria which is holding more than 200 mostly Christian school girls hostage has denied a ceasefire which would have seen them released. Last month the Nigerian government announc...
Christian Aid has said the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has put millions of Nigerians in urgent need of food, clean water and sanitation. The humanitarian charity says the jihadists have been m...
Eight Christians have been killed in northeast Nigeria during a Boko Haram attack. The Islamist terror group whose name roughly translates into 'Western education is banned' launched three atta...
Fighters from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have reportedly launched an attack on Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria. According to AP, fierce fighting is said to be taking place on the outsk...
The leader of Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group responsible for the murder of thousands of Christians, has urged his fighters to "kill, slaughter and abduc Abubakur Shekau's presence in the vide...
Nigerian terror group Boko Haram has released all but one of the Dapchi schoolgirls who were kidnapped last month. The only girl who was not released is also th The girl's name is Leah Sharibu and sh...
The Muslim extremist group Boko Haram's released a video of them killing around 100 non-Muslims with machine guns. The massacre reportedly happened in a town called Bama, 40 miles from Gwoza - an are...
Police in Nigeria have arrested eight suspected Boko Haram members on suspicion of kidnapping 276 Chibok school girls in Maiduguri, Borno State four years ago. The predominantly Christian schoolgirls...
The kidnappers of the Christian girl kept in captivity in Nigeria due to her faith have threatened to kill her. That's according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), who received intel updating t...
Boko Haram has vowed to keep Nigerian Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu in captivity forever. The 15-year old was among 110 girls abducted in February from their school in Dapchi, Yobe state.While al...
The mother of kidnapped Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu has renewed calls for the Nigerian government to secure her daughter's release, following a threat to Leah was kidnapped in February by Boko...
David Cameron's ruled out holding this year's G8 Summit in Russia - where it was due to be hosted. David Cameron's ruled out holding this year's G8 Summit in Russia - where it was due to be hosted.&n...
Bolivia's president has cancelled the country's ban on evangelism, which was put into law last month. President Evo Morales announced on Twitter that the government will repeal the penal code that cr...
The Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan has said sorry for any hurt "religious or other sentiments" by his controversial comment on "affair with the Pope". He said that it was unintentional and he did not ...
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is urging the international community to do more to gather evidence of war crimes suffered by Christians and other minorities at He's been speaking at the Counter-D...
Residents in a small town in the south of Bosnia-Herzegovina are hopeful that the Vatican will officially recognises apparitions of the Virgin Mary, that have b According to The Washington Post, peop...
Botswana has shut down the church of a self-styled Malawian "prophet", who claimed to walk on air. The Botswana Gazette reported that services at Shepherd Bushiri's Enlightened Christian Gathering Ch...
Security staff are being introduced at the doors of churches in a famous beauty spot, in a bid to ensure disrespectful tourists don't disturb services and funer The measure has been taken in the popu...
A 13-year-old boy said he was praying to God for help after falling into a river of sewage in Los Angeles. The boy was rescued after being swept away and spending more than 12 hours in the city's tox...
A 13-year-old boy who suffered severe brain trauma said he was in heaven while doctors declared him brain dead. The parents of Trenton McKinley from Mobile, Alabama said that he "came back to life" j...
