#BreakingNews a New Report Reveals Over 50,000 Christians have been Killed in Nigeria and 18,000 Churches Set on Fire since 2009
A new report entitled, “Martyred Christians in Nigeria” was issued by Intersociety. It reveals that over the past 14 years at least 52,250 Nigerian Christians have murdered at the hands of extremist Islamist militants.
The total released statistics show that over 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since the Boko Haram Islamist group began in 2009.
(The video below is a few years old but highlights the worsening situation)
This information was contained in a newly-released report published by a Nigerian non-governmental organization has revealed.
The report, titled “Martyred Christians in Nigeria”, was published by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), a Nigerian-based research and investigative rights group, which has been monitoring and investigating religious persecution and other forms of religious violence throughout Nigeria since 2010.
Over the past 14 years at least 52,250 Nigerian Christians have been murdered by extremist Islamist militants, and 18,000 churches were set on fire.
In the same period 18,000 Christian churches and 2,200 Christian schools were set ablaze. Approximately 34,000 Muslims also died in Islamist attacks.
More than 1,000 Christians have been killed since the beginning of 2023.
During the same period, at least 707 Christians were kidnapped, out of which the Northern Nigerian Niger State recorded more than 200 abductions, including 14 March 2023 abduction of over 100 Christians in Adunu (Paikoro). At least 101 anti-Christian abductions were recorded in Kaduna and there were other affected States.
Groups causing the violence are Boko Haram, and ethnic Fulani herders who have joined Islamist extremist groups.
Due to the attacks about 5 million Christians have been displaced and forced into Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps within Nigeria and refugee camps at regional and sub-regional borders, the Intersociety report says.
Source: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) - https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7248004665966827665/6765703507763980719#
This information was contained in a newly-released report published by a Nigerian non-governmental organization has revealed.
The report, titled “Martyred Christians in Nigeria”, was published by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), a Nigerian-based research and investigative rights group, which has been monitoring and investigating religious persecution and other forms of religious violence throughout Nigeria since 2010.
It shows that 52,250 Nigerian Christians have been murdered since 2009
In the same period 18,000 Christian churches and 2,200 Christian schools were set ablaze. Approximately 34,000 Muslims also died in Islamist attacks.
More than 1,000 Christians have been killed since the beginning of 2023.
During the same period, at least 707 Christians were kidnapped, out of which the Northern Nigerian Niger State recorded more than 200 abductions, including 14 March 2023 abduction of over 100 Christians in Adunu (Paikoro). At least 101 anti-Christian abductions were recorded in Kaduna and there were other affected States.
Groups causing the violence are Boko Haram, and ethnic Fulani herders who have joined Islamist extremist groups.
Due to the attacks about 5 million Christians have been displaced and forced into Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps within Nigeria and refugee camps at regional and sub-regional borders, the Intersociety report says.
This is consistent with the 2023 Watch List finding released in January by Open Doors, the interdenominational foundation that helps persecuted Christians in the world. According to that report, Nigeria accounts for 89% of Christians martyred worldwide.
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