Christian Bodies in Nigeria Urge Church Members to Stand up against Persecutors
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon - A coalition of concerned and politically conscious Christian organizations, leaders and concerned Christians grouped under the umbrella name "Joint Christian Body against Insecurity in Nigeria" has urged the country’s Christians to stand up to their persecutors.
Anti-Christian persecution watchdogs have on different reports said Nigeria is perhaps the world’s worst country to live as a Christian.
The latest mass killings were recorded during this year’s Holy Week, Fulani jihadist herdsmen killing about 170 people in Nigeria’s Plateau and Benue States.
And this wasn’t an isolated event. International Christian Concern reports that at least 300 Christians were massacred in Nigeria in the first three months of 2025. Dozens have been abducted, and thousands displaced.
A report by the Catholic-inspired NGO, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety released on April 10, 2023, stated that since 2009 when Boko Haram insurgents began their campaign to annihilate Christianity in Africa’s most populous nation, over 50,000 Christians had been killed.
The same report indicated that 18,000 Christian churches and 2,200 Christian schools were set ablaze. Approximately 34,000 moderate Muslims also died in Islamist attacks.
According to Global Christian Relief, at least 4000 Christians are killed in Nigeria every year-often more than in the rest of the world combined-a statistic that further solidifies reports that of ten every Christians killed in the world, nine of them are from Nigeria.
Initially localized in the north where twelve states declared Sharia Law in 1999, the killing of Christians in Nigeria had since spread to the Middle Belt and further southwards, as other terrorist groups such as Fulani Jihadist herdsmen and Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP emerged.
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon - A coalition of concerned and politically conscious Christian organizations, leaders and concerned Christians grouped under the umbrella name "Joint Christian Body against Insecurity in Nigeria" has urged the country’s Christians to stand up to their persecutors.
Anti-Christian persecution watchdogs have on different reports said Nigeria is perhaps the world’s worst country to live as a Christian.
The latest mass killings were recorded during this year’s Holy Week, Fulani jihadist herdsmen killing about 170 people in Nigeria’s Plateau and Benue States.
And this wasn’t an isolated event. International Christian Concern reports that at least 300 Christians were massacred in Nigeria in the first three months of 2025. Dozens have been abducted, and thousands displaced.
A report by the Catholic-inspired NGO, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety released on April 10, 2023, stated that since 2009 when Boko Haram insurgents began their campaign to annihilate Christianity in Africa’s most populous nation, over 50,000 Christians had been killed.
The same report indicated that 18,000 Christian churches and 2,200 Christian schools were set ablaze. Approximately 34,000 moderate Muslims also died in Islamist attacks.
According to Global Christian Relief, at least 4000 Christians are killed in Nigeria every year-often more than in the rest of the world combined-a statistic that further solidifies reports that of ten every Christians killed in the world, nine of them are from Nigeria.
Initially localized in the north where twelve states declared Sharia Law in 1999, the killing of Christians in Nigeria had since spread to the Middle Belt and further southwards, as other terrorist groups such as Fulani Jihadist herdsmen and Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP emerged.