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Chibok Pastor “Grateful” Daughter Stoned By Islamists Didn’t Deny Christ

A Nigerian pastor whose daughter was stoned to death by the Islamic group Boko Haram says that he is “grateful” to know that she stood up for Christ until the end.

“I was told that my daughter refused to change her religion. I was told that they dug a hole and buried her from the neck and stoned her to death,” Pastor Enoch Mark said.  “To die for the sake of Christ, that’s the happiest thing for me. I’m grateful that she didn’t change her religion. She trust[ed] in God.”

Pastor Mark was told of his daughter’s martyrdom by a 17-year-old girl named Miriam who escaped from her captors.

“I believe she died with dignity. Monica is now in heaven because she refused to convert,” Pastor Mark’s wife told the BBC.

The girl who told the pastor is one of the girls that informed western leaders that Boko Haram is forcing the kidnapped girls to carry out killings and bombings.  Miriam told the BBC that they were trained to kill on captured Christians.

“They were Christian men. They [Boko Haram militants] forced the Christians to lie down. Then the girls cut their throats.”

Boko Haram Storms Village; 150 Dead

Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram launched a surprise attack Wednesday night on villages in the north-eastern part of Borno state that has left at least 150 people dead.

The deadliest attack was on the village of Kakawa where the Islamists killed 97 people including women and children.

“The terrorists first descended on Muslim worshippers in various mosques who were observing the Maghrib prayer shortly after breaking their fast,” eyewitness Babami Alhaji Kolo said to AFP news agency.  “They… opened fire on the worshippers who were mostly men and young children.  They spared nobody. In fact, while some of the terrorists waited and set most of the corpses on fire, others proceeded to houses and shot indiscriminately at women who were preparing food.”

The attacks on Wednesday followed Tuesday assaults on two towns where 48 men were shot after finishing prayers.

The two villages attacked are on the outskirts of the town of Monguno which the military recently recaptured from the terrorists.

“They were praying in the mosque when Boko Haram attackers descended on the village. They waited till they finished the prayers. They gathered them in one place, separated men from women and opened fire on them,” a Monguno resident told the BBC. “Many died, some escaped. They then set the village on fire. I saw five victims with bullet wounds who managed to escape. They were brought to [Monguno] on wheelbarrows, before they were transferred to vehicles that took them to hospitals.”

Nigerian Businessman Connected to Boko Haram Chibok Kidnapping Arrested

Nigerian military officials have announced the arrest of a businessman who actively participated in the kidnapping of almost 300 schoolgirls by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram.

Military spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade said that Babuji Ya’ari was the leader of a “terrorist intelligence cell” for Boko Haram.  Olukolade had been pretending to be a member of the Youth Vigilante Group so he could provide information to the terrorists and mislead officials.

“The arrest of the businessman … has also yielded some vital information and facilitated the arrest of other members of the terrorists’ intelligence cell who are women,” Olukolade said in a statement Tuesday night.

In addition to the kidnapping, Ya’ari has been a coordinator of attacks in the city of Maiduguri and helped plan and carry out the 2014 assassination of the emir of Gwoza.

Also arrested was a woman named Hafsat Bako who managed payroll for the terrorist operatives.  The Nigerian defense ministry said she was paid about fifty American dollars for each job.

Boko Haram Kills Dozens In Niger Attack

Islamic extremist group Boko Haram attacked Niger’s Diffa region in an overnight attack leaving scores dead according to security sources.

At least 30 civilians are reportedly dead.  Officials added that several villages were completely burned to the ground by the terrorists.

The attack is the second time in a week that Boko Haram has crossed the Nigerian border to kill civilians.  The group launched suicide bombings in Chad Monday that killed 34.

Chad reported to those attacks with air strikes on areas that are controlled by Boko Haram in Nigeria.

The new Nigerian president has promised to increase the multinational force fighting the terrorists to 7,500 and that “efforts to strengthen security cooperation with our neighbours and adjust our own response to Boko Haram will yield results very soon”.

Boko Haram Violently Kills Dozens of Christians

Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has violently killed dozens of Christians to death in their latest raids on villages.

Boko Haram killed 29 people in Adamawa state and most of the dead are Christians.  The killings come a week after the terrorists hacked to death 10 Christians in Pambula-Kwamda.

They destroyed the telephone mast first before invading our community — this was to prevent us from telephoning and requesting help,” said one community pastor.  “They killed 10 members of our church [Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, or EYN] using machetes and then slaughtering them.”

Military officials also say that Boko Haram is the likely source of suicide bomb attacks in a Christian community on May 19th that left nine people dead. They are also believed behind a shooting attack in Wagga.

“The attacks killed 19 people in Garkida and Madagali,” said the Rev. Samuel Dante Dali, president of the EYN. “The bombing signals a renewal of violence by the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram at a time when Nigerian authorities are claiming victory in many parts of the northeast.”

The town of Gubio was attacked and burned Wednesday night leaving 37 men, women and children dead.  Over 400 buildings were destroyed in the terrorist attack.

Abortion Activist Group Rushes To Women Impregnated By Boko Haram

Pro-life groups are raising the alarm about an abortion group that has entered Nigeria with a focus on the women who have been impregnated during their captivity by Boko Haram.

Last month we reported on the rescue of nearly 700 women from the clutches of the Islamic terrorist group.  Nigerian officials said that many of the women were impregnated by the terrorists as part of their campaign.

“Boko Haram insurgents deliberately raped women with the intention of getting them pregnant so they would give birth to future insurgents as successors of their violent struggles, hence the need for a special program to break the chain anticipated by the insurgents,” Isa Gusau, spokesperson for Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima, also explained.

“The sect leaders make very conscious efforts to impregnate the women; some of them, I am told, even pray before mating, offering supplications for [Allah] to make the products of what they are about doing become children that will inherit their ideology.”

Now, the United Nations Population Fund, one of the biggest worldwide groups promoting abortion in underdeveloped nations, is providing counseling to the women who have been attacked.  While the group hasn’t explicitly said they were there to provide abortions, pro-abortion groups like the Center for Health and Gender Equality promoted the presence of UNFPA saying they provide access to abortion.

“UNFPA is one of the leading international groups promoting abortion in the developing world,” explained the UK-based Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) in a statement this week. “SPUC fears that these emotionally vulnerable, malnourished women will be pressured into aborting their babies.”

“It is extremely worrying that some of these women may undergo abortions, which could cause them further physical and emotional trauma in their already weakened state,” Antonia Tully of SPUC added. “The deaths of their unborn babies would add to the toll of lives lost in this tragic situation.”

Nigeria sees about 760,000 abortion every year.  Many Nigerian based pro-life groups are speaking out demanding the UNFPA be blocked from aborting the children of the Boko Haram victims.

Boko Haram Repelled After Surprise Attack

Nigerian military officials imposed a curfew in Maiduguri after Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram launched a surprise attack.

Witnesses say the streets are empty in the town with all schools, markets and hospitals shut down.  The army claims the action is in place to protect the city.

The terrorists were fought off by a coalition of military troops and local residents.  The terrorists reportedly focused on taking over a heavily fortified army base.

Maiduguri is the largest city in north-eastern Nigeria with around two million citizens.  The town had been a base for Boko Haram until recent military victories drove the terrorist group out of villages and into the woods.

Military officials called it the strongest attempt by the terrorists to recapture the town since March declaration by the government that all major towns have been cleared of the terrorist group.

A leader of the civilian troops told AFP news agency that the terrorists suffered “serious casualties” before they withdrew.

The Army says that Boko Haram has now planted land mines around the border of the game reserve where they are hiding after being driven out of the cities.

Over 200 Rescued Nigerian Women Pregnant From Rape By Terrorists

Officials in Nigeria along with UN officials say that over 200 of the nearly 700 women and girls rescued from the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram have been forcibly impregnated by their captors.

“Already, many of them are undergoing screening for various diseases [and] infections, including HIV/AIDS,” UNFPA Nigeria executive director Babatunde Oshotimehin told reporters, “and about 214 of those already screened were discovered to be at various stages of pregnancies, some visibly pregnant and some just tested pregnant.”

The governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, had been expressing concern over the forced impregnations of the women saying he believes the terrorists are showing one way they hope to spread their extremism across the land.

“Boko Haram insurgents deliberately raped women with the intention of getting them pregnant so they would give birth to future insurgents as successors of their violent struggles, hence the need for a special programm to break the chain anticipated by the insurgents,” spokesperson Isa Gusau said on Monday, according to the Nigerian publication “The Leadership.”

“I [am] very worried about what the future holds for us if what I have gathered about these insurgents works according to their plan,” he continued. “These people (Boko Haram) have a certain spiritual conviction that any child they father will grow to inherit their ideology, whether they live with the children or not.”

The government said they will be providing all the necessary support to the women after their rescue including mental health efforts to reverse any brainwashing by the terrorists.

Officials did say they believe that none of the recovered girls were among the Chibok girls taken in 2013.

Nigeria Army Rescues 234 More Female Captives

The Nigerian Army’s successes against the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram continued this weekend with the rescue of more captured women.

Military officials say that 234 more women and girls were taken from a Boko Haram stronghold in the Sambia Forest.  The total number of women and children rescued in the last week from the terrorists reached 527.

The girls and women are being given counseling to help them with the brainwashing attempts of the terrorists.  Some of the women actually fired on the troops, leading officials to say that after forced marriages and long captivity, some of the women have been successfully convinced they are part of the terror network.

The military was unable to say if any of the captives were part of the 200 schoolgirls taken from Chibok that led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.   The leader of Boko Haram had said those girls would be sold to other members of Boko Haram.

“I abducted your girls,” Shekau said in a 57-minute video earlier. “I abducted a girl at a western education school and you are disturbed. I said western education should end. Western education should end. Girls, you should go and get married. I will repeat this: western education should fold up. I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah. I will marry off a woman at the age of 12. I will marry off a girl at the age of nine.”

Another 150 Women Rescued From Boko Haram

Another major victory by the Nigerian army in their battle against the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.

Military officials on Thursday announced the rescue of another 100 women and 50 girls from a campsite in the remote Sambisa Forest where the terrorists have been maintaining a stronghold.

The army said that the terrorists were using brainwashed women as soldiers and as human shields in their fight with troops.  Col. Sani Usman said that one soldier and one woman died during shootouts with nine terrorist encampments in the Sambisa Forest.

The rescued women and children are in a safety zone for medical attention and processing according to Usman.  He said many of the women were “severely traumatized.”

The raid also resulted in the deaths of several Boko Haram field commanders.  The troops captured combat tanks and high caliber munitions that were taken to military installations or destroyed in the camps.

Amnesty International stated in April that at least 2,000 women and girls have been taken captive by the terrorists since the beginning of 2014.