As calls for the release of a Christian girl kidnapped by Boko Haram intensify, a Christian religious freedom charity has said her strong faith has challenged s In response to a call to prayer issued...
An audio recording has emerged of the abducted school girl, Leah Sharibu, who has called on the Nigerian presidency to facilitate her release. The 15-year-old Christian teenager was kidnapped in Febr...
Muslims in Nigeria have launched a "deliberate economic terrorism and land-grabbing strategy" against Christians, according to Christian leaders in the West Afr While attacks in Nigeria by Fulani eth...
Religious leaders in Nigeria have called for Christian students to boycott compulsory Arabic classes introduced by the government. Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church and other religious ...
A Christian woman has been stabbed to death in Nigeria for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Bridget Abihime, 74, was accused of saying the Islamic prophet was "not important" before the inci...
The Nigerian army has said it's recaptured and "secured" the Christian town of Chibok from Islamic militants. Boko Haram had taken control of the area last week but state forces have pushed them out....
Christian congregations in northern Nigeria have reportedly been singing hymns which chide Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. According to the Times the lyrics reveal an increasingly sectarian eleme...
Nigerian Christian leaders say President Buhari's policies and church disunity mean Christians may not survive another generation. The Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Elders Forum (NCE...
The Nigerian Church is in a state of confusion because the government has ignored its cries for help against the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram, according to Mark Lipdo, director of the Stefanos F...
A Nigerian church has collapsed while worshippers were inside on Sunday. It's not clear how many casualties there are at St Paul Catholic Church in the Southern Delta state.Sources in the community t...
A Nigerian mega church has given the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), N10 million (£21,122) to support victims of conflicts in Africa Daystar Christian Centre in Lagos gave the m...
A suicide bomber's blown himself up at the gates of a Nigerian church. The Nigerian Red Cross said the man attempted to access ECWA church in Gombe on a motorbike but was restrained.He then set off t...
A Nigerian priest tells Premier about the attack on a church in his diocese which killed 19 people. On Monday morning in a village called Mbalom in Nigeria, a gun attack on St Ignatius chur...
A Christian charity has warned that the Nigerian government has made "no major attempts" to prevent Fulani militia herdsmen from killing Christians. International Christian Concern (ICC) reported a s...
A missionary Nigerian priest has been killed according to reports coming from the country. Fr Dennis Osuagwu, also a Catholic priest was killed in a road ambush in Nekede, southern Nigeria, according...
Kenyan police have arrested five people in connection with the massacre of 148 people at the country's Garissa University. Gunmen from Somalia's al Shabaab terrorist group stormed the building on Thu...
A top Brazilian football team has asked God to accompany its athletes and other staff after the plane they were on crashed in Colombia. Chapocoense footballers were travelling from Bolivia to Colombi...
A Christian charity supporting the persecuted church has said it was a miracle that no one was hurt when Aleppo's Jesuit monastery was struck by a bomb. A church worker who works at the monastery tol...
An American pastor has described a steeple being ripped from his South Carolina church in a storm and landing between two church buildings as a miracle. Strong winds removed the large metal spire bef...
It's now thought more than 70 churches have been destroyed by violent protests in Niger following the publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Following two days of riots across the country ...
