WASHINGTON — A radical Fulani tribe that advocates say is "hell-bent on turning Nigeria into a caliphate" is abducting and holding Christians in chains while the Nigerian government and media turn a blind eye, according to journalists sounding an alarm ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A disturbing investigation says governments in Nigeria are facilitating Fulani jihadists as they steal Christian farmland, and murder its populations. For a long time, there have been reports of Fulani Jihadist persecution of ...

They are one of the last great nomadic peoples of the planet, a community of some 35 million people scattered across 15 countries in West Africa, from the dusty Sahel down to the lush rainforests. Isa Ibrahim, 30, a Fulani herdsman and member of the Kofogi ...

Fulani herdsmen on Aug. 24 killed two Christians in Benue state, Nigeria, following the slaughter of five others earlier in the month, sources said. All seven Christians were killed in Guma County, the same area where as many as 200 Christians were slain ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Although the uprooting of Christians from their lands has historically been an issue for Nigeria’s northern states, a fresh report by the Catholic –inspired NGO – the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of ...

Islamist Fulani militants swooped into the town of Yelewata in Nigeria’s Benue state and killed up to 200 Nigerian Christians on Friday in what international aid organizations are calling the “worst killing spree” in the region yet. The attackers ...

After a scene of horror in which around 200 people were "brutally killed" in Yelwata, in Benue state, Nigeria, Pope Leo XIV prayed for the victims, calling it a "terrible massacre." Despite extreme persecution, the Catholic Church grows in the country ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria's president said on Monday that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders, attacked a Christian farming community in the north-central part of the country, the latest in an increasing wave of ...