Nigeria

Continuing their years-long slaughter of Nigeria’s Christians, Fulani herdsmen murdered at least 96 Christians in neighboring Benue and Taraba states since October 22, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Tens of thousands of Christians have been murdered by Islamist terrorist groups including Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram, and Islamic State West Africa Province since Islamic jihadism took hold in Nigeria in 2009.

A Christian farming village in northern Nigeria’s Plateau state is working to build community safety after a courageous brother was killed defending them from an attack by suspected Islamic Fulani extremists last month, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

As Islamic jihadists continue a relentless campaign of murder, abductions, and displacement against Christians in northern Nigeria, communities of local believers are joining together to pray and to support one another, including with finances to pay extortionate ransoms for kidnapped loved ones, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Continuing the relentless murder of Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state, Fulani jihadist herdsmen have murdered four Christians in less than three weeks, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

A former Islamic Fulani Nigerian, Pastor Eli Abdullah Tinau, is now evangelizing Fulani Muslims in Nigeria’s Plateau state, despite Fulani terrorists having set fire to his home during one of their relentless attacks on Christians in the region, Baptist News (BN) reports.

Suspected Boko Haram Islamic terrorists in northeast Nigeria have beheaded four ‘infidel’ civilians, one of whom was a woman and one who is believed to have been a Christian, the Open Doors international Christian advocacy organization reported on October 24. The traumatizing attack took place amid ongoing extreme violence against Nigerians considered ‘infidels’ for not conforming to the terrorists’ jihadist ideology.

With a new Islamist president who is seen to have no respect for believers in Christ, Nigeria continues to be the world’s deadliest country for Christians: Fulani jihadist herdsmen continued their slaughter of Christians by murdering seven people in Egwuma village, Agatu County, Benue state last week, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. The attack was the fourth to be carried out in the region over the previous four weeks.

Christians in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state say Islamic Faluni herdsmen killed two believers on Sunday, the latest victims in relentless attacks against believers in Christ.

Dozens of Christians remained missing Tuesday after armed persons attacked churches in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state, killing at least three people while abducting a pastor and some 30 worshippers, Christians said.

Despite warnings and outcry from local and international religious rights groups, Fulani Islamic terrorists are continuing to murder Christians in Nigeria with impunity, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. More Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria each year than in the rest of the world combined: well over 50,000 believers have been murdered by Islamic terrorists since jihadist terrorism took hold in the country in 2009.

Fulani jihadist herdsmen in north-central Nigeria murdered 38 Christians in Agatu County, Benue State during August and July, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Over 16,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in the last four years, more than any other religious group, according to new data obtained by Worthy News.

The fate of a Protestant pastor and his 13-year-old daughter who were abducted in Gusau, northwestern Nigeria last month is not known, despite a ransom having been paid for their release, Christian Daily International (CDI) reports.

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) states in its 2024 Annual Report that the government of Nigeria continues to tolerate terror attacks by nonstate Islamic extremists who want to impose their form of Sharia law upon Nigerians, especially Christians, Morning Star News reports.

The governor of Nigeria’s north-central Niger state has asked residents to remain calm and cautioned against reprisal attacks after arsonists destroyed a major evangelical church building over the weekend.

At least 50 Christians were murdered in Nigeria’s Benue state last week during an attack on their villages by Fulani jihadist herdsmen and a criminal gang, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Fulani jihadist herdsmen murdered two Christian farmers and severely wounded three others during attacks on Christian-owned farms in northern Nigeria last week, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.