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by bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Cabo Delgado, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, Islamic State, Mozambique, News | 0 |
Extremists allied with the Islamic State group have spread their attacks further south into Mozambique’s most populous province, Nampula, including an assault on a Catholic mission in which an Italian nun was among those killed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 6, 2022 | Cabo Delgado, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, lead, Mozambique, News | 0 |
A series of gruesome attacks by Islamist insurgents has hit the province of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique over the past few weeks.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 16, 2022 | anti-Christian violence, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, lead, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops | 0 |
Catholic churches in Sokoto suspended Masses May 15 as the governor imposed a 24-hour curfew to quell violence during protests against the arrest of young men for the May 12 murder of Deborah Yakubu.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 13, 2022 | Associated Press, blasphemy, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, News, Nigeria | 0 |
A student was beaten and burnt to death Thursday by fellow students in northwestern Nigeria after she was accused of making a blasphemous social media post, witnesses and police said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 21, 2022 | Associated Press, Boko Haram, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, News, Nigeria | 0 |
An explosion has rocked a marketplace in Nigeria’s northeast killing six people, police and emergency response services told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 8, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, Islamic extremists, News, UK Parliament, United Kingdom | 0 |
A man accused of stabbing a British lawmaker to death during a regular meeting with his constituents told a court Thursday he targeted the politician because he voted for air strikes on Syria.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Africa, Archbishop Gregory Aymond, Archdiocese of New Orleans, Burkina Faso, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, lead, Missionaries, News, Terrorism | 0 |
Both Burkinabe and American ecclesial authorities have offered prayer and called for the safe release of American Sister Suellen Tennyson, 83, who was abducted by armed gunmen at her convent earlier this week.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in UK and Ireland, Great Britain, Islamic extremists, News, UK Parliament, United Kingdom | 0 |
A man who stabbed a veteran British lawmaker to death last year while he was meeting with voters was a “committed Islamist terrorist” who had spent years researching and planning potential attacks on lawmakers, a prosecutor said Monday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | Abu Sayyaf, Associated Press, Church in Asia, Church in Philippines, Islamic extremists, News, Philippines | 0 |
Philippine troops backed by fighter jets attacked a remote camp of Muslim militants linked to the Islamic State group on Tuesday in a predawn assault in the country’s south that left two insurgents and a soldier dead, military officials said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 28, 2022 | Cabo Delgado, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Islamic extremists, Mozambique, News | 0 |
A Human Rights Watch report released in mid-January said the humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado and neighboring provinces intensified in 2021, despite the military’s efforts to defeat insurgents.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Boko Haram, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Church in Africa, Fulani, Islamic extremists, lead, News, Nigeria | 0 |
Successive Nigerian governments have failed to address the newly designated terrorist groups in the northwest and north center with the seriousness they merit, Christian Solidarity Worldwide says.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 19, 2022 | anti-Christian violence, Associated Press, Church in Asia, indonesia, Islamic extremists, News, terrorist attacks | 0 |
An Islamic militant who eluded capture for 18 years was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after an Indonesian court found him guilty of hiding information about the 2002 Bali bombings from authorities and harboring other suspects.
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