Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
March 25, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Wielding fire, Islamists target Nigeria schools
The teenager in the immaculate white robe stood in the ruins of
what had been his school. There were no classrooms, no desks or chairs,
no intact blackboards — there was, in fact, no longer any reason for him
to be there.
March 19, 2012
- The Weekly Standard
Weekly Standard: Deadly Diversity
In Nigeria, thousands of people have been killed in recent months, and tens of thousands in the last decade.
February 27, 2012
- The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Nigeria, Somalia, and Afghanistan: what is a foreign fighter?
As yet another suicide blast strikes yet another church in northern Nigeria, immigration officials have announced that they are cracking down on the flow of foreigners into northern Nigeria who may be adding to the growing numbers of the shadowy Islamist militia Boko Haram.
February 19, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Senegal protests grow before presidential poll
Protesters demanding the departure of Senegal's aging president on Sunday seized control of a three-block stretch in the heart of the capital, erecting barricades and lobbing rocks at police as demonstrations intensified just days before a contentious presidential poll.
January 28, 2012
- The Economist
Economist: The terror they dare not name
A year ago arrivals on the outskirts to Kano had to pass a sign forbidding alcohol consumption and banning women from riding on motorbikes.
January 25, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Youths overrun bombed north Nigeria police station
Jubilant youths overran a blood-splattered police station on Wednesday after it was attacked by a radical Islamist sect, revealing a streak of popular discontent with a government that many say has failed them in Africa's most populous nation.
January 24, 2012
- The Australian
The Australian: Opinion: Nigeria suffers from terrorists
Nigeria is one of the most powerful countries on the African continent and a key member of the Commonwealth, and it is facing a grave and potentially existential threat from what is showing itself to be one of the world's most ruthless terrorist organisations.
January 15, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Kenya Islamic group claims ties to al-Shabab
An increasingly vocal Islamist group says its leader has been appointed to represent an al-Qaida-linked Somali militia in Kenya, a development that underscores the dangers Kenya faces from Somalia's insurgency.
January 14, 2012
- The Economist
Economist: The spreading northern insurgency
As the muffled boom of a distant bomb set off by militants gives way seconds later to the clatter of government soldiers’ automatic gunfire, Satu Mari listens in the car park of the hotel he owns in Maiduguri, a city in Nigeria’s turbulent north-east.
January 12, 2012
- The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Nigeria torn by rising religious violence
A spree of bomb blasts and machine-gun attacks attributed to an Islamic militia targeting Nigeria's Christians—and apparent reprisal attacks against Muslims—have stoked fears the government is powerless to halt escalating religious violence in Africa's most populous country.
January 08, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Nigeria leader references civil war in sect fight
Nigeria's president said Sunday that ongoing sectarian assaults by a radical Islamist sect are "even worse" than the country's 1960s civil war that saw 1 million people die — suggesting that the enemy this time could be lurking anywhere and everywhere.
January 02, 2012
- The Irish Times
Irish Times: At least 50 killed in ethnic clashes in Nigeria
Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria’s Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman has said, and according to police, mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence.