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Netanyahu Says Persecution Of Christians In Nigeria Must End

Netanyahu Says Persecution Of Christians In Nigeria Must End

December 26, 2025 12:15 am

Israeli leader issues Christmas appeal condemning violence against Christians in Nigeria, as U.S. President Donald Trump signals new pressure on Abuja.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned what he described as the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, calling for an immediate end to religiously motivated violence in the country.

In a Christmas message released Thursday December 25, 2925, Netanyahu said attacks on Christians or adherents of any faith are unacceptable anywhere in the world. He urged Nigerian authorities to act decisively against militant violence and displacement affecting Christian communities.

“The persecution of Christians or members of any religion cannot

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Muslim-Muslim Ticket, A Head-On Attack On Christians – Ex-SGF

Muslim-Muslim Ticket, A Head-On Attack On Christians – Ex-SGF

July 15, 2022 3:46 am

Babachir Lawal who is a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation has once again berated the decision of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to run with a Northern Muslim candidate, Kashim Shettima.

While speaking, he described the Muslim-Muslim ticket as a direct attack on Christians, pointing out that the party produced a Muslim presidential candidate while knowing that most of the party officials from the North are all Muslims.

This, he said, had resulted in an outcry by the Christian community in the party, especially from northern Nigeria.

Lawal was …

Defend Yourselves But Don't Use Guns, Adeboye Tells Christians

Defend Yourselves But Don’t Use Guns, Adeboye Tells Christians

July 4, 2022 7:13 am

The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has called on Christians to get jaw bones of cows for self-defence, rather than use guns.

Adeboye, offered this clarification while explaining his position on self-defence for Christians, said Samson was victorious in biblical times with jaw bones, and not with an AK-47.

The respected cleric offered the clarification on Sunday in a message, ‘Made for the top’, during the church’s monthly thanksgiving service monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

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‘I never …

It Is Time To Defend Yourselves – Adeboye Tells Christians

It Is Time To Defend Yourselves – Adeboye Tells Christians

July 3, 2022 6:29 am

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A. Adeboye, has called on Christians to start defending themselves against attackers.

Adeboye made this call while reacting to the high rate of insecurity in the country and incessant attacks on the church

Africa Daily News, New York reports that churches in Nigeria have suffered deadly attacks with the recent being on a church in Owo, Ondo State, where scores were killed and many injured.

Speaking yesterday at the July Holy Ghost congress on Saturday, Adeboye said there is nowhere in the bible that God said a …

Thousands Of Faithful Gather As Angolan Church Reopens

Thousands Of Faithful Gather As Angolan Church Reopens

September 20, 2020 2:55 pm

Thousands of Angolan Christians attended a church service in Luanda on Sunday, their first since coronavirus restrictions forced them to stay home six months ago.

At least 3,000 parishioners dressed in white gathered at the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ In the World, also known as the Tocoist Church.

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They sat on chairs arranged around a metre (yard) apart for an open air service at the mega church in the Golfe II suburb.

The service lasted 90 minutes, much shorter than the traditional five hours, an AFP photographer said.

Religious gatherings …

President Buhari Sacks NDE DG, Argungu

Trump Asked Me Why I Am Killing Christians In Nigeria – Buhari

September 9, 2020 5:39 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed his discussion with the US president, Donald Trump, over the killing of Christians in the country.

Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday, at the First Year Ministerial Performance Review Retreat of his second term, Buhari noted he is the only African amongst the least developed countries that Trump invited in the White House.

He said the American president asked him to explain why he is killing Christians in Nigeria.

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Buhari said: “I believe I was about the only African amongst the least developed countries that

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Buhari Sends Sympathetic Message To Christians

Buhari Sends Sympathetic Message To Christians

April 10, 2020 7:18 am
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said it’s “unfortunate” that Christians will celebrate Easter in a “subdued manner, away from the usual congregation in churches.”

Buhari had ordered a lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States for 14 days in a bid to combat the spread of Coronavirus across the country.

This had led to the restriction of both social and religious gatherings.

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However, Buhari in his Easter message urged Christians to rekindle their faith in Christ because they will overcome.

In the message he personally signed, Buhari rejoiced with Christian

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'Why Christian Leaders Should Start Studying Qur’an'

‘Why Christian Leaders Should Start Studying Qur’an’

March 18, 2020 5:24 am

Leadership of the Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN) Edo State chapter, has been advised to study the Holy Qur’an to upgrade their knowledge and also keep abreast with its message.

The Chairman of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria and Catholic Bishops of Benin Metropolitan Diocese, Arch Bishop Augustine Akubeze, gave the Qur’an charge in Benin at the inauguration of the new executive of Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN), Edo State branch.

This is even as he warned against clergymen who are in the habit of blackmailing and destroying homes with their messages to desist from such.

Represented at the event …

Christians Go To God In Prayer, Fasting Against B’Haram

January 23, 2020 10:37 am
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Adamawa State has declared a three-day fasting and prayer session from Monday, Jan 27, to Wednesday, Jan 29 over what it termed rampant killing of Christians in the state.

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Making the declaration in Yola, the Adamawa State CAN chairman, Rev Dami Mamza said it is the only option left to the Christian community in view of the ‘glaring failure’ of the Federal Government to protect lives of Christians in the state and other parts of the country.

Three Christians, including two prominent Christian

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Buhari

EU Parliament: Buhari Overseeing The Killing Of Christians

January 19, 2020 6:07 pm

The allegations against this current administration under Buhari by various organizations and individuals of working hard to Islamize Nigeria is no more just an allegation as the European Parliament has made a categorical statement on that, accusing the president of overseeing the killing of Christians, this is according to a new report released by the body.

The European Parliament which is the legislative branch of the European Union, accused President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of overseeing the persecution of Christians in the Northern part of Nigeria where Sharia law is in practice.

 

In the new report released on January …

Killing Of Christians: HURIWA Takes Case To Pope, Trump

January 15, 2020 2:18 pm
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, said it has resolved to petition the head of the Catholic Church in the Vatican and the President of the United States of America on the spate of what it called well-coordinated armed invasions of churches and Christian dormitories by suspected armed Islamists and bandits that have made Kaduna state the epicenter of these extensively coordinated attacks against Christians.

HURIWA has urged the two global leaders to compel President Muhammadu Buhari and governor Malam Nassir El’ Rufai of Kaduna state, to stop the siege and systematic genocidal killings of Christians in

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No Sacred Cow In Corruption Fight – Lai Mohammed

Boko Haram: FG Explains Why ISWAP Killed 11 Christians

December 31, 2019 7:50 am
The Federal Government has described the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, as irrational and inhuman.

Addressing the press in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Monday, Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, maintained that the terrorists “do not subscribe to any religion, despite their pretensions.”

He added that this “explains why they reportedly murdered 11 innocent men in Nigeria recently, in a dastardly and cold-blooded manner, just to avenge the killing of ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by US forces. The world must unite to fight this scourge of our time.

“Our gallant men

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