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“The outcry of Nigerian Christians is falling on deaf ears. It is time for the United States to answer their call for help,” International Christian Concern said.
In a meeting with Nigerians living in Rome on March 25, the pope said that he was grateful for all that Nigerian Catholics have done to bear witness to the Gospel.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a UK-based human rights foundation, is appealing to the Nigerian government to implement a “Safe Schools Initiative” to keep school-going children out of danger amid a resurgence of abductions in the West African country.
Nigeria should be returned to the list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom, some members of the U.S. Senate have appealed.
Sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith, the resolution would call on the Biden administration to designate Nigeria a “country of particular concern.”
Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of Nigeria warned that if greater action is not taken he believes the Christian population could disappear entirely in the next few decades.
On Jan. 12, we honor the feast days of several martyrs and groups of martyrs at a time when there are more martyrs than ever.
An international Christian legal advocacy organization, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International has accused the United States of America Government of turning a blind eye to the persecution of Christians in Nigeria after the West African nation was omitted from the Country of Particular Concern (CPC) list of worst religious freedom offenders.
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Catholic leaders and others demand government action as victims are buried in mass graves.
In 2021, the Biden administration removed Nigeria, a nation notorious for extreme levels of religious persecution, from the Countries of Particular Concern list.
Members of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have welcomed the release of Rhoda Jatau Ya'u from Bauchi Prison after 18 months of detention.
A new report from a Christian advocacy group says that Christianity continues to thrive and grow despite brutal repression.
An 18-year-old Nigerian Christian convert has been granted a court order protecting her from her father and brothers, who have been threatening to kill her for leaving the Islamic religion.
The Parish Priest of Sacred Heart Udei Parish of Nigeria's Catholic Diocese of Makurdi has temporarily allocated parcels of land belonging to the Church to scores of families recently displaced by armed Fulani herdsmen.
Christian leaders in Nigeria are calling on the government to formulate economic policies that will address the country’s “prevailing hardships”.
Christian leaders in Nigeria’s Enugu State have joined civil society entities that are opposed to the forced “sit-at-home” order issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a separatist group in the West African country.
Small-scale farmers in Nigeria are playing a “crucial role” in addressing the challenge of food security in Africa in general, and the West African nation in particular, members of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have said.
His titles are many: priest, faith healer, exorcist, psychotherapist, and, since May 29, governor of Benue State in Nigeria.
Nigerian bishop Wilfred Anagbe recently sat down with CNA in Washington, D.C., to discuss the ongoing persecution and killings of Catholics in his country, which has grown so much in recent years that, he said, “it has become a daily occurrence.”