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Boko Haram Attacks Claim 7 Christians on Christmas Eve

This Christmas Eve, Boko Haram members launched an attack against Christian communities in Pemi and Debro of Borno State, Nigeria. Surviving residents of these communities report that on December 24 around 6 p.m., Boko Haram jihadists attacked Christians and set fire to the local Church of the Brethren (EYN). Attackers additionally looted Christian homes in …

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Boko Haram Hearing and FTO Designation

JUBILEE CAMPAIGN LAUDS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE’S DESIGNATION OF BOKO HARAM AS A FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION WASHINGTON, DC (November 13, 2013) – Several human rights, religious liberty and civil society groups today welcomed the designation of Boko Haram–whose religious persecution of Christians has reached a catastrophic level–as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” by the U.S. Department of State. In its official release, the White …

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ICC Determines that Boko Haram Attacks in Nigeria Constitute Crimes Against Humanity

Jubilee Campaign and the Christian Association of Nigerian Americans (CANAN) welcome the status report just released by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor on their preliminary investigation on Nigeria. We especially applaud the clear recognition of the pernicious role the “Salafi-jihadist” group Boko Haram has played in the violence, which has wracked …

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Jubilee Campaign Marks Leah Sharibu’s Sixth Birthday in ISWAP Captivity – Nigeria

[FULL TEXT] WASHINGTON, DC, 15 May 2023   |   Yesterday, on 14 May 2023, Jubilee Campaign marked the 20th birthday – and sixth birthday spent in militant captivity – of Leah Sharibu, a young Nigerian Christian woman. Having originally been abducted from Government Girls Science and Technical School in Dapchi, Yobe State at the age of …

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Jubilee Campaign Joins USCIRF in Outrage Over the Absence of Nigeria on the CPC List

WASHINGTON, D.C 7 December 2022 – In the afternoon of the 2nd December the State Department quietly released its Country of Particular Concern (CPC). While several countries were listed – Nigeria [where InterSociety reported that Islamist militants killed 4 400 unarmed Christians] – was absent. “How many people have to be slaughtered before Nigeria is …

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Jubilee Campaign Echoes Concerns Raised by Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa – Nigeria Should Remain a Country of Particular Concern

In mid-December 2021, the newly founded Observatory of Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA) sent a joint letter with 17 signatories to the United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken inquiring about the reasons for Nigeria’s removal from the Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) designation list of countries the governments of which have “engaged in or …

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