It is going to be a wretched and frightened Easter for Christians in Nigeria.
The assassination and oppression of Christians by Islamist terrorists is with the intention of creating a Muslim Califle in this West African country, which is clearly uncontrolled despite being 46% of the population being Christians.
“Christians in Nigeria are being erased; we need to call what it is – the massacre,” Jeff King, president of the International Christian Consign (ICC), told Fox News Digital.
“Let’s start on 2-3 April 2025 (Nigeria’s) Plateau with terrible attacks at Bokos County in the state. More than 60 Christians (were) were murdered, and 383 houses tortured by 383 houses” Raja said. “The families were burnt alive, and the children were left homeless. It is the intestine.
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At least 51 Christians were killed in another attack in the Nigeria plateau state. (Reuters)
The king believes that Nigeria is a murder area for Christians, and it is not random violence. He continued with data confirmed by local leaders on the ground in Nigeria.
“It is a calculation push from Phoolnis, which is to erase Christians from the middle belt in its homeland, Nigeria. Since 2001, up to 100,000 Christians have been butchers, and 3.5 million farmers have been excluded from their land by Phulani Islamist terrorists.
“This is a large -scale land that is disguised as a dispute or tribal spat. What we are seeing is a huge and long -running secret jihad.”
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In an attack, a widow told the ICC, “They want our land, our life, our Jesus.”
At the end of last week, ICC and local sources claim, 54 Christians were killed after celebrating a palm Sunday service in Zikke village near Jose. The attack was reportedly gone for a solid hour, in which no attempt was made by the authorities to stop it.
Members of St. Leo Catholic Church make a procession on the Palm Sunday on 13 April 2025 in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. (Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images)
Members of the Christian Group Open Doors UK in Nigeria showed a list of other attacks in Nigeria in Nigeria last month.
- March 24 – Dandu Village, Basa LGA. The terrorists ambushed three Christian farmers, while they were cultivating their land.
- March 27 – Ruvi Community, Bokos LGA. Phulani militants included 11 Christians in the funeral.
- 2 April. – Bokos LGA, terrorists attacked Tamiso village, where women were holding a Christian fellowship meeting in the Church, a Cocin (Church of Christ in Nations), killing at least five. The village of Dafo was also attacked, killing two.
- April 6 – Four people were killed by terrorists in Pikmula village in Bokos LGA.
- 7 April – Three people killed three people in Basa LGA.
- April 8 – Three separate attacks were started, in which at least two died in Basa LGA.
- April 11 – Terrorists attacked the village of Zogu in Basa LGA, killing three people, one father and his two sons. According to OD field contacts, the father was headed by the terrorists.
The Nigeria Open Doors ranks seventh on the 2025 World Wrathist, which is an annual index of countries where Christians face the most harassment.
“In North and Central Nigeria, Christians faced the extreme violence of Boko Haram, Iswap, (Islamic State West African province) and armed Phulani terrorists who killed thousands of believers, destroyed hundreds of churches and displaced the entire Christian communities,” Ryan Brown, Open Doorce US CEO. “The recent attacks in the plateau state represent another chapter in this ongoing crisis of religious harassment.
“These attacks have destroyed communities that were still recovering from the Christmas events that killed about 200 Christians in the same region in 2023.”
Nigerian troops secured the area outside the St. Francis Catholic Church in the city of Ovo, Nigeria on 6 June 2022, a day after an attack that targeted the pooja. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Brown said that families have lost male breadwiners, women and children are often sexually assaulted.
Brown said, “The remaining people are now living in at least four displacement camps, facing food insecurity and are unable to reach education or worship safely.”
Bishop Auba Matawal has profiled Islamist killers. Matawal is the chairman of Nigerian Bokos, the welfare committee of internal displaced people.
“It appears that some of these extremists have been motivated with an ideology to confiscate the land from Christian communities, which continues to have a heritage of Umpan Dan Fodio’s vision to spread Islam in Nigeria,” he said. “Although their number may be small, these extremists have caused serious damage to Christian communities.”
The king of the ICC told Fox News Digital that he was calling Nigeria from the State Department to list Nigeria as a country of special concern (CPC). ”
It is an American government label which means restriction, pressure and real results.
Raja said that he believes that the US should cut all (financial and military) assistance in Nigeria until we begin to see a meaningful deficiency in the attacks, the criminals were arrested and the land was restored. ,
A burnt car attacked by gunmen is seen on North Central Nigeria, Tuesday, December 26, 2023. Nigerian officials and survivors say that such mass murders killed at least 140 people by gunmen who attacked remote villages in the north-central Nigeria state. (AP photo) (AP)
Not referring to attacks on Christians, a spokesperson of the State Department told Fox News Digital, “The United States is deeply concerned with the ongoing violence in West Africa, including the belts between Nigeria. We provide their condolences to the families of victims of recent violence in the plateau state.
“We continue to join the Nigeria government at the highest level to address the root causes of violence, and we strongly advocate for the safety of all citizens.
“We accept (Nigerian) President Tinubu’s commitment to address the reasons for the violence and urge the government to take meaningful and decisive steps to prevent further attacks, ensure accountability for criminals and promote long -term peace and stability.”
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In Nigeria, Bishop Matawal warned that, this Easter weekend, “Christian community is on high warning, especially during church services and religious ceremonies.”
“Nigerian Christians are taking their cross every day, yet their hope grows like a revival,” the king said. “Easter is about life -winning life on death, and these Christians are living out of it. But let’s cry and say” We listen to you, we are with you, just hold on a while. ,
Fox News reached the Digital Nigerian government, but received no response.
