ABUJA, Nigeria — More violence in Nigeria has left 34 Christians dead and others in captivity. Open Doors, which tracks persecution of Christians, says Nigeria
Three Sudanese Christians were arrested in January after one of them was found with a Bible by the Sudan Armed Forces. While jailed, the trio was tortured before being released in March.
More than 34 Nigerian Christians were slain for their faith in April, continuing a pattern that has made the country the world’s most deadly place to be a follower of Jesus.
Saidu Yakubu, alleged leader of a kidnapping gang that set a fire which destroyed a Nigerian church rectory and killed a seminary student, has been taken into custody.
Antar Abbas Abu Hidia, general secretary of the Sudanese Church of Christ, apprehended by Rapid Support Forces and incarcerated in Soba Prison in Khartoum, Sudan.