01/12/2025
New report reveals more than 7,000 Christians have been k*lled in Nigeria so far this year, due to Islamist radical militants taking over the country
That's about 32 Christians k*lled each day in the first 220 days of 2025.
In addition more than 100 Christian churches a month are being attacked in what the report describes as the deliberate push to erase Christianity from Africa's most populous nation.
The findings come from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety), a respected Nigerian human rights watchdog, whose August report documents a "brutal massacre" driven by jihadist groups like Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province, and radicalized Fulani herdsmen militias.
The report indicates that the Islamic attackers are waging a targeted holy war against Christians, burning places of worship, abducting believers, and displacing millions in a bid to impose M*slim Sharia dominance.
The heartland of Benue, a predominantly Christian farming region known as Nigeria's "food basket," suffered over 1,100 fatalities.
The Yelewata massacre on June 13-14 stands out as Fulani jihadists stormed a displacement camp, gunning down and hacking to death at least 280 defenseless Christians, many of them women and children hiding in market stalls after escaping from earlier raids.
Survivors described militants shouting "Allahu Akbar" as they torched homes and hacked at escapees with machetes, leaving the village a ghost town and sparking widespread protests against government inaction.
In the same period, Islamist militants abducted 7,800 Christians, averaging 35 kidnappings daily.
Priests and pastors are prime targets, with over 600 clerics abducted since 2009, including 250 Catholic priests.
Meanwhile, 100 churches are burned each month β totaling nearly 19,100 since the Boko Haram insurgency started in 2009.
Christina Aguayo News
This year is not new, it's the latest chapter in a 16-year genocide that has claimed over 125,000 Christian lives since 2009, alongside 60,000 moderate M*slims who werent radical enough.
The violence has displaced more than 15 million people β mostly Christians,