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Yahaya-Sharif Aminu, who was sentenced to death in 2020 for sharing allegedly blasphemous song lyrics on WhatsApp that offended Islam, remains in prison in Nigeria as he awaits a Supreme Court appeal. United Nations experts have called for his immediate and unconditional release, highlighting concerns over human rights violations.
Armed individuals shot and killed a pastor and member of the Evangelical Church Winning All in the Kaduna Central District Church in Kaduna State, Nigeria, as he was traveling to a church conference. Kaduna State has experienced significant violence, often targeting the Christian community.
A bipartisan watchdog committee has for the first time urged the U.S. State Department to include Azerbaijan on its list of the world's worst religious freedom violators as it calls on the agency to take a stronger stance against violations in several countries, including Nigeria and India.
Fulani herdsmen attacked residents of a village in central Nigeria’s Plateau state as they slept at 2 a.m. on April 19, killing 12 Christians, sources said.
However prominent its art and wealth may be, Nigeria is also responsible for the most violent persecution of Christians in all of Africa.
A Christian pastor was killed last week as he traveled to minister to church members in northern Kaduna state, sources said.
A Nigerian local government official said that a Christian in Otukpo County’s Entepka village was killed by herdsmen last Saturday, after they killed two others two days earlier on April 18 in the Entepka District’s Adoka-Icho community.
