Kidnapped

“Several people prayed in churches and mosques,” Ohemu Fredrick told reporters regarding the returned students and staff members. “Through their prayers, God brought us help. God used a former governor of Kaduna state to assist us.”

Nigerian pastors are increasingly the targets of violence, says one Christian leader in Kaduna State. Not two weeks after a Nigerian pastor and his family were attacked while traveling, Pastor Elisha Numan has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom.

A pastor who helped to rescue an eight-year-old girl kidnapped in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday says that he is no hero, but that God did use him. Pastor Jeff King believes that, after several hours of searching, God led him and his friend to the hotel where the girl’s assailant was keeping her.

A pastor in Myanmar (formerly Burma) who was missing for two weeks is now dead. Five people kidnapped Pastor Tun Nu from his home at gunpoint on January 19 for reasons that remain unclear.

Sexual violence is a characteristic of the ongoing insurgency, during which thousands of women and girls have been kidnapped and raped by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.