Christians in Nigeria were killed at a rate of one every 86 minutes between Jan. 1 and Sept. 8, most of them in a region that receives low priority in Nigerian and U.S. security policy, a new report by a U.S.-based aid agency shows.
A pastor was shot and killed while on his way to a church service in Nigeria’s Plateau State on Sunday morning, one of at least nine people killed in a series of attacks in rural communities over the weekend.
Abductions linked to extremist violence in Nigeria more than doubled in the final three months of 2025, according to a new report warning that insecurity in the country is worsening again after several years of comparatively lower violence.
Three of 11 people seized from Nigeria’s Kaduna state have died while being held captive in the same forest hideout used to confine 37 worshippers taken during Easter Sunday services at three churches in a nearby community.
A Nigerian journalist has been cleared of criminal defamation charges for reporting on violence against Christians in the country, ending a years-long legal battle.
More than 50 Christian and Muslim leaders in Nigeria have signed a peace accord aimed at promoting religious harmony and countering hate speech and extremism, as the country prepares for a closely watched 2027 election.
For years, we begged the world to notice the persecution of Christians in Northern Nigeria. Now it has — but the violence is only getting worse.
A Federal High Court in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria has ruled that Islamic religious police have no authority to arrest a woman over her conversion from Islam to Christianity. The ruling curbs the reach of Hisbah, religious police units that enforce Sharia law.
A lawyer who advocates for Christian women and girls abducted and forced to convert to Islam says the United States military intervention initiated in Nigeria in the last year has not been "helpful" in stopping the escalating Christian persecution in the African country.
The United States has condemned the recent killing of nine relatives of Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, a Nigerian pastor whose earlier appeal had warned that “fear has become a way of life” in the country’s Middle Belt.
