At least one Catholic priest was killed and several churches set ablaze Saturday during a protest by Muslims in two predominantly-Muslim Nigerian states over the cartoons of the prophet Mohamed, the local press has reported.05/20/2008
NIGERIA: RESCUE OF GIRLS IGNITES ISLAMIC RAMPAGE
Six churches gutted after recovery of Christians teenagers from Muslim kidnappers.
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04/24/2008
NIGERIA: MUSLIM RIOTERS ATTACK CHRISTIANS IN KANO
(Compass Direct News) – Hundreds of Muslims took to the streets of this northern Nigerian city on Sunday (April 20), attacking Christians and their shops and setting vehicles on fire on claims that a Christian had blasphemed Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
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12/18/2007
Nigeria's the place for Islamic ringtones
Muslim mobile phone owners in Nigeria have been urged to "go express your faith" by downloading a range of Islamic ringtones.
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10/03/2007
Death toll from Nigeria Christian attacks higher than reported
Indications that the death toll following the weekend’s violence in the Tundun Wada area of Kano State, northern Nigeria, may be higher than
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10/02/2007
Nigeria: Can Condemns Religious Killing in Kano
GENERAL Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Mr Samuel Salifu has condemned the killing of Christians in Tudun Dankande local government area of Kano State.
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08/26/2007
Mob in northern Nigeria attacks prison, injures official
Angry demonstrators have injured a prison official in northern Nigerian Bauchi state in an attempt to lynch suspected homosexuals being held in custody, official news agency NAN said Saturday.
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08/21/2007
Clash over Nigeria cross-dressing
Police in northern Nigeria have clashed with Muslim youths angry at a Sharia court's decision to grant bail to 18 men accused of dressing as women.
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06/05/2007
Christian School Teacher Brutally Murdered by Extremists in Nigeria
Sixteen suspects in the murder of a Christian secondary school teacher in the northern Nigerian state of Gombe, have been released without charge. The decision has caused dismay in local Christian circles.
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05/10/2007
Nigerian Christians subject to Islamic law
(CWNews.com) - All schoolgirls in the Nigerian state of Kano are now required to wear an Islamic veil. The new
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04/20/2007
NIGERIA: CHRISTIAN BOY ESCAPES FROM MUSLIM KIDNAPPERS
Victor Udo Usen, 13, flees to mother’s shop and is home again – in another state.
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03/30/2007
NIGERIA: MUSLIMS CLUB CHRISTIAN TEACHER TO DEATH
Students, extremists stone, beat and burn her after ‘desecration’ of yet unfound Quran.
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03/21/2007
Nigeria Muslim Militants "Kidnap" Christian Children
(BosNewsLife)-- A major Christian rights group has expressed concern that Muslim militants in Nigeria are increasingly kidnapping Christian
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03/08/2007
Muslim Students in Nigerian School Set Fire to Chapel
Muslim students twice have set fire to a high school chapel here since it was rebuilt last August, after Islamists burned it down three years ago
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03/07/2007
NIGERIA: MUSLIM STUDENTS SET FIRE TO HIGH SCHOOL CHAPEL
ZARIA, Nigeria, March 7 (Compass Direct News) – Muslim students twice have set fire to a high school chapel here since it was rebuilt last August, after Islamists burned it down three years ago.
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07/14/2006
Islamic Violence in Nigeria
CWNews.com – For two years Francis Yohanna Anche, 15, has been suffering from a brain injury he sustained when Muslim students in his high school in Zaria city attacked Christian students. His right hand and leg are still paralyzed from a machete cut to his head.
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05/09/2006
Animists in Southwestern Nigeria Attack Anglican Church
Traditional animists attacked churches in Ode-Aye town, in the southwestern state of Ondo in February and March, beating two Anglican priests into comas
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04/06/2006
CHRISTIAN GIRL HAS MUSLIM MAN FORCED ON HER
Unyielding 16-year-old girl escapes would-be husband and sharia court
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02/25/2006
MUSLIMS BURN CHRISTIANS ALIVE : NIGERIA
Cartoons. Then blood. Sticks. Then blood. Machetes. Then blood. Iron bars. Then blood. Torches. Then blood.Muslims torched church buildings. Christians were beaten into the ground by Allah devotees.Islamists rape, stab and burn Nigerian Christians. Don't expect your local Muslim apologist to get too upset about it. This is the Religion of Peace after all!
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02/21/2006
Catholic Priest Burned Alive...
At least one Catholic priest was killed and several churches set ablaze Saturday during a protest by Muslims in two predominantly-Muslim Nigerian states over the cartoons of the prophet Mohamed, the local press has reported.05:30 Posted in NIGERIA | Permalink | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0) | Email this
02/20/2006
TO THE CHRISTIANS IN THE WHOLE WORLD WE NEED YOUR HELP:Maiduguri mayhem: 58 CHRISTIANS killed, 30 churches burnt
No fewer than 58 persons were killed and 30 churches burnt as the protest in Maiduguri, Borno State, over controversial cartoons published in Europe on Prophet Muhammed Gov. Ali Modu Sheriff
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02/19/2006
Nigeria cartoon protests kill 16 CHRISTIANS
Sixteen CHRISTIANS have been killed in northern Nigeria during protests by Muslims over the cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad
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01/16/2006
Nigerian Christians Tested by Fire
Religious intolerance continues to spread in parts of northern Nigeria. Nigerian Christians are under attack by radical Muslims and are paying a high price for their faith. But one ministry is helping the victims recover.
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