(Barnabas Fund) — Six people were murdered, including the acting village head, and three seriously injured in an attack by armed Fulani militants on Oct. 5 in Wereng, a beleaguered Christian village in Plateau State. The heavily armed attackers, who were wearing police uniforms according to eyewitnesses, sporadically fired their guns as they stormed the […]
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Six Nigerian Christians Killed in Fresh Fulani Militant Attack on Beleaguered Plateau State Village
Christian Killed in Fulani Herdsmen Ambush in North-Central Nigeria
Photo Credit: Steve Scott/Free Images JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Thursday (September 17) shot a Christian who was riding on a motorcycle with a policeman in north-central Nigeria, sources said. Sati Bulus, a member of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Malul village in Bokkos County, Plateau state, was ambushed and […]
Wounded Nigerian Pastor Shot Dead While Raising Alarm of Fulani Militant Attack
(Barnabas Fund) — A Nigerian pastor, already wounded in a Fulani militant attack, was shot multiple times by the gunmen as he attempted to warn his Adara Christian community, in Kaduna State, of the impending raid on Sept. 6. Pastor Alubara Audu heard voices close to his home at 2 a.m. and attempted to raise […]
Muslim Fulani Attacks in Nigeria Displace Local Missionaries
Photo Credit: Ovinuchi Ejiohuo Unsplash (Christian Aid Mission) — The slaughter of Christian men, women and children by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in north-central Nigeria accelerated in recent weeks to unprecedented levels, with a three-day series of assaults displacing five native missionaries and their families, the leader of a native ministry said. The local missionaries and […]