Persecution
Suicide bombing in Nigeria kills two at church
A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic church conducting Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing two people and wounding another 45 in a region under assault by a radical Islamist sect, officials said.
The attack took place in the city of Bauchi, which has seen a number of bombings and shootings blamed on the sect […]
Some 200 women gang-raped near Congo UN base
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some young boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers’ base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said Monday.
Will F. Cragin of the International Medical Corps said aid workers knew rebels had occupied […]