New Report Estimates That Over 8,000 Nigerian Christians Killed, Kidnapped Last Year

According to a recent article, over 3, 000 Christians in Nigeria were kidnapped and over 5, 000 were killed in 2022.

According to some religious freedom activists, the persecution of Christians in the African country should be viewed as genocide, according to the report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law ( Intersociety ).

According to the unique analytical report,” Intersociety” is dedicating 1, 041 people who died or vanished as a result of the genocidal attacks carried out across Nigeria in the first 100 years of 2023 by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen. The victims listed below already include 5, 068 others who were killed or made to vanish without a trace by African Jihadists in 2022.

The figures were based on information gleaned from a variety of resources, including diplomats’ estimates, public reports, statistics from nonprofit organizations, and media outlets. Additionally, the article stated that in 2023, more than 1,000 Christians will perish.

According to The Christian Post, Intersociety claimed that Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba, Niger, Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, and Kebbi were the state where murder was most common. The American nation has long been plagued by violence, with the southern region being more Christian and the northern region more Islamic.

The culprits are thought to be affiliated with extreme Islamist terror organizations like Boko Haram, Fulani herders organizations, and ISAWP ( Islamic State West Africa Province ). The article claims that some of the killings were also caused by the African war. Most Christians in Nigeria have long urged the government to take more action to put an end to the deaths and have charged them with inciting the bloodshed.

The report, which was put together by scholar Emeka Umeagbalasi, is also critical of the nation’s’s Christian leaders. According to the report, Christian converts are being compelled to leave the Church in droves in favor of other non-Christian denominations by the African Christian leaders’ lackadaisical attitudes and dry materialistic quest. ” The churches or church facilities in Nigeria will become the current Greek temple monuments in fifty years or less if extreme care is not taken to save the Christendom and the Church ,” it must be warned.

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The news comes just months after the Biden administration kept Nigeria off of a religious liberty watchlist for the second year in a row. In December, the State Department drew the ire of religious liberty advocates for leaving Nigeria off its list of “Countries of Particular Concern list,” a government watch list for countries that endorse or allow religious violence.