A crowd of about 200 mourners gathered under the clear sky of Barkin Ladi in Nigeria’s Plateau State as pastor Ezekiel Dachomo officiated the mass burial

International Christian advocacy group Open Doors lists Nigeria as the seventh-most dangerous place for Christians on its World Watch list.

Scholars and analysts continue to debate whether the violence meets the threshold of genocide. Under the United Nations definition, genocide requires proof of intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. This intent is difficult to establish in Nigeria’s context, where attackers vary in motive, affiliation, and geography.

Christian leaders and human rights advocates have expressed concern over the rising wave of religion-motivated killings in Nigeria, claiming that 16,769

Ngalakh combines baobab fruit and peanuts to end Easter in West African nation, reciprocated by the sharing of meat breaking Ramadan’s fast. In Senegal, Muslims love to share meat. Christians share porridge. Ending the monthlong Ramadan fast this week ...

At a Dearborn City Council meeting last week, Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud told local resident Edward "Ted" Barham, a Christian, that he was "not welcome" in the city after Barham raised concerns about new street signs honoring Arab American News publisher ...