US President Donald Trump has threatened military action against Nigeria, accusing the government of failing to protect Christians. Niger...

  Comedian and television host Bill Maher, known for his acerbic wit, is calling out the media for its silence on the ongoing persecution of...

A woman has been burnt to death by a mob in northern Nigeria's Niger state after she was accused of blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad...

At least 27 worshippers have been killed and several wounded when armed bandits stormed a mosque in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state during ...

  Fierce Nigerian political rivals Peter Obi and President Bola Tinubu were seen laughing and joking at Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass in...

The South African government has deported Timothy Omotoso, a Nigerian televangelist and senior pastor of Jesus Dominion International (JDI),...

Nsukka, Nigeria — Since early childhood, Chidi Nwaohia’s life has swung like a pendulum between two spiritual paths: Christianity and Afric...

In Kano State, a Muslim-majority state in northern Nigeria, strict blasphemy laws carry punishments as severe as the death penalty for insul...

The Islamic police in the northern Nigerian state of Kano have arrested Muslims seen eating and drinking publicly, as well as those selling ...

The National Secular Society has welcomed news that Nigerian atheist Mubarak Bala has been  freed  from prison, after spending four years be...

A Nigerian Christian has been fully acquitted of any wrongdoing after spending 19 months in prison on blasphemy charges. Rhoda Jatau, a mot...

Father Thomas Oleghe, the oldest priest in Nigeria has passed away at the age of 104. Oleghe died in the early hours of Nov. 24, the Solemni...

Nigeria's military has said a new Islamist insurgent group from Niger and Mali, known as Lakurawa, was operating in the northwest and o...

On a warm Thursday afternoon in May, the ululation, drumming and singing of a choir of two-dozen women can be heard across Gan Gora, a villa...

Crowds gathered in Lafia town in central Nigeria to celebrate the Durbar Festival, a colorful religious and traditional fete that features...

Eid festivities have reached a climax in Nigeria with colourful events. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from northern Kano state. Al Jaze...

  Two missionary priests who were abducted from a parish rectory in Nigeria earlier this month have been released and admitted to the hospit...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has advanced a resolution to increase sanctions and pressure on the Nigerian government over the rampant...

A Nigerian pastor has been arrested over allegations he fraudulently got people to part with their money. Theo O Ebonyi, well-known in Benue...

  Before his death in 2021 at the age of 57, TB Joshua was one of Africa's most influential televangelists. The Christian preacher attr...