Boko Haram Archives

Cameroon bishops: Bishop “did not commit suicide, he was brutally murdered”

Bishop Jean-Marie Benoit Bala of Bafia “did not commit suicide, he was brutally murdered,” the bishops in Cameroon wrote in a statement June 13, calling the perpetrators to justice. The bishop’s body was found in in the Sanaga River, but signs of torture on his body and preliminary autopsies indicate that he was killed.

Questions surround Cameroonian bishop’s reported suicide

The Catholic bishops in Cameroon have expressed their sorrow and concerns surrounding the unexpected death of one of the African country’s bishops, whose remains were pulled from a river June 2. While authorities have considered suicide, others suspect foul play.

82 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls swapped for prisoners

The kidnapping of the Chibok girls in Nigeria is one of the high-profile incidents of Boko Haram’s insurgency, now in its eighth year and with little sign of ending. About 220 were abducted from their school in a nighttime attack. Now, 82 of the girls have been returned in a deal brokered by Switzerland and the Red Cross.

Landmark study examines responses of Christians to religious persecution
- Global Church
- April 22, 2017
A new report on religious persecution says Christians are the most widely targeted religious community, suffering terrible persecutions globally. Other key findings of the study included that “Christian responses to persecution are almost always nonviolent, and, with very few exceptions, do not involve acts of terrorism.”
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New martyrs whose deaths meet the old test of ‘hatred of the faith’
- Global Church
- April 21, 2017
Pope Francis is set to visit Rome’s Church of St. Bartholomew on Saturday to shine a spotlight on the Church’s new martyrs. Yesterday, Crux presented a sampling of new martyrs killed ‘in odium amoris,’ or ‘hatred of love’; today, we look at several new martyrs whose deaths seem to meet the classic test of being killed ‘in odium fidei,’ or ‘hatred of the faith.’
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Bishops urge Nigerian government to help young people move into farming
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- December 12, 2016
Bishops Martin Uzoukwu of Minna, George Dodo of Zaria and Calistus Onaga of Enugu advised the government to encourage young people to embrace agriculture and boost security measures to protect innocent Nigerians from being killed by insurgents.
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