The Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) at her 70th General Church Council (GCC) meeting emphasized the Church’s 2023 theme: ‘Occupy till I come’ (Luke 19:13). The theme was chosen to encourage believers in Jesus Christ, especially ECWA members, to remain occupied in working hard for the advancement of the Kingdom of God until Jesus Christ returns. This calls for every […]

More Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than in any other country worldwide — at least 4,650 in 2021 and nearly 900 in the first three months of 2022 alone. International Christian Concern: Nigeria. On Sunday, June 19, gunmen attacked two churches, Maranatha Baptist Church and St. Moses Catholic Church, in Nigeria’s northwest state of Kaduna. The gunmen […]

Listed here is Religious violence in Nigeria for the month of January 2022. Religious violence in Nigeria date back to the Kano riot of 1953. It arose out of the visit of a German-born preacher Rev. Reinhardt Bonke, who was invited by a Christian organization, the Christ for All Nation Ministry, to conduct a week long crusade in Kano. Thousands […]

Gunmen have killed an unknown number of church worshippers in Ondo state, south-west Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari said “only fiends from the nether region” could have done this “dastardly act”. The armed men entered St Francis Catholic church in the town of Owo and fired at the congregation during a service to mark the holiday of Pentecost, witnesses said. Nigeria has experienced […]

Originally published on May 20, 2022. Updated: May 25, 2022 The Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Vice President, Rev. Stephen Sunday Ajise and ECWA General Secretary, Rev. Yunusa Sabo Nmadu Jnr visited Deborah Samuel’s parents to pray for them and to console them over the “heartless” killing of their daughter. ECWA Social Movement, the socio-political arm of ECWA, has donated […]

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has condemned the killing of Deborah Samuel, a Christian student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. Welby described Deborah’s murder as a sin against God. Deborah, a 200-level student, was gruesomely murdered by some students for alleged blasphemy against Prophet Mohammad. In a series of tweets, the Archbishop urged the Nigerian Government to […]

  ABUJA, Nigeria, May 16, 2022 (Morning Star News) – Rioters upset over the arrest of two Muslims in connection with the killing of a Christian college student in Sokoto, Nigeria attacked three church buildings and looted and damaged Christian-owned shops on Saturday (May 14), sources said. Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, a 200-level student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, […]

  ABUJA, Nigeria, May 13, 2022 (Morning Star News) – A Christian student stoned to death at a college in northwest Nigeria on Thursday (May 12) was falsely accused of blaspheming the prophet of Islam because she had refused to date a Muslim, sources said. Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, a 200-level student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, the capital […]

How a Church can remain faithful to their history and biblical legacies in a changing world. Many nuances of doctrinal beliefs and practices appear to remain in the background of how things are conceptualized and applied within ECWA circles, however, quite often the details are not very familiar or thoroughly discussed with members and even some pastors who might not […]

The Minister in charge of First Baptist Church, Gwagwalada Abuja, Reverend Deji Oyelami has admonished Nigerian children to keep hope alive in a greater Nigeria. Reverend Oyelami gave the admonition during this year’s Sunbeam Anniversary of the Church in Gwagwala Abuja. The Baptist Cleric said with continuous prayers and genuine service to God, Nigeria would overcome her challenges. He therefore […]