Kidnapped schoolgirls

Nigerian governor says 279 kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
- Mar 3, 2021
Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces a spate of school kidnappings.

By Lekan Oyekanmi and Sam Olukoya
Pope prays for liberation of 317 kidnapped Nigerian students
- Feb 28, 2021
Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for the girls’ quick release.

By Associated Press
After two years in captivity, Christian schoolgirl’s example ‘should challenge us all’
- Jun 20, 2020
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirl who refuses to renounce her faith should “inspire every Christian,” according to a leading human rights group. Leah Sharibu was the only Christian among 110 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamic State’s West African Province (ISWAP) on February 19, 2018 in Dapchi located in

By Crux Staff

Kidnapped Nigerian teen refusing to renounce Christianity a ‘living martyr’, aid worker says
- Dec 19, 2019
If by February 19, 2020, Nigerian teen, Leah Sharibu doesn’t regain her freedom, she will have spent exactly two years in Boko Haram captivity.

By Crux Staff

Boko Haram frees most schoolgirls abducted last month
- Mar 22, 2018
On Wednesday, terrorist group Boko Haram returned at least 76 Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped in a raid last month.

By Catholic News Agency
Bishop asks Nigerian government to work for rescue of kidnapped girls
- Mar 6, 2018
Bishop Hilary Dachelem of Bauchi has appealed to the Nigerian government and security agencies to work for the rescue of the 110 schoolgirls kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in February.

By Peter Ajayi Dada
82 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls swapped for prisoners
- May 9, 2017
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.

By Religion News Service
On Chibok anniversary, Christians are caught between hope and experience
- Aug 27, 2015
ABUJA/JOS, Nigeria – On Thursday, Nigerians marked the 500th day since the kidnapping of almost 300 mostly Christian schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok by Boko Haram, the radical Islamic terrorist group held responsible for more than 17,000 deaths here since 2009. It’s long been frustrating for Nigerians that

By John L. Allen Jr.