Douglas Burton

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Writer | Speaker — Conflict Reporter and Editor of Truth Nigeria

Douglas Burton is an award winning conflict reporter specializing in Nigerian war news. Doug mentors conflict reporters in North-Central Nigeria as Managing Editor of TruthNigeria.com. Since 2019 he has authored scores of reports with The Epoch Times, and Catholic News Agency. His work has been featured in Fox Nation, American Thought Leaders, The Westminster Institute and The Washington Times. Doug was honored by Catholic Media Association in June, 2023 as a First Place Winner for Best Coverage of Religious Liberty Issues. Having served the Washington Times Corporation as an assignment editor for two decades, Doug brought his skills to Baghdad in 2005 to support the U.S. occupation there for two years. From 2015 he began covering the campaign against ISLAMIC State as an independent reporter until 2017 and switched to reporting the persecution of Christians in Nigeria shortly thereafter. He produced the most complete story about the blasphemy murder of Deborah Emmanuel on May 12, 2022 in Nigeria’s northern city of Sokoto.

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UFOs and God

In all my years of doing a radio commentary, I have only mentioned UFOs and extraterrestrials a few times. I recently did an interview with Derrick Warfel about his book, UFOs and God, which is a comp...

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