It will be a miserable and fearful Easter for Christians in Nigeria.
The murder and persecution of Christians by Islamist militants with the intention of creating a Muslim caliphate in this country of Western Africa continues apparently without control despite the fact that the population is 46% Christian.
“The Christians of Nigeria are being eliminated; we need to call it as it is: Genocide,” said Jeff King, president of International Christian Encern (ICC), a persecution regulator, Fox News Digital.
“Let’s start with the horrible attacks from April 2 to 3, 2025, in Bokkos County of the state of Nigeria). Some 60 Christians (they were) sacrificed and 383 houses set fire,” King said. “The families were burned lives, and the children were homeless. It is a heartbreaking. The worst thing is that this is nothing truly” special “in this attack. This has lasted 20 years and has only expanded.”
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At least 51 Christians were killed in another attack in the state of Plateau in Nigeria. (Reuters)
King believes that Nigeria is a field of killing for Christians, and that this is that random violence. The continuum with figures, confirmed by local leaders in the field in Nigeria.
“It’s a calculated push from the fulanis to erase Christians from their homeland, Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Since 2001, Up to 100,000 Christians have bone butchered, and 3.5 million farmers have bone kicked off they roll in aketine, machetist and machetist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist Terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist.
“This is a large amount of land disguised as a tribal dispute or splashes. What we are witnessing is a massive and long -lasting stealthy jihad.”
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It is reported that a widowed woman in an attack has the CPI: “They want our land, our lives, our Jesus.”
Last weekend, the sources of the ICC and the premises affirm, another 54 Christians were sacrificed after celebrating in a service of Palm Sunday in the town of Zikke, near Jos. According to the reports, the attack continued for a solid hour without any attempt by the authorities to stop it.
The members of the Catholic Church of St. Leo have a procession for Mark Pamos on Palm Sunday in Iikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, April 13, 2025. (Ajunle Ajayi/Getty Images)
The members of the Christian Open Doors UK group in Nigeria showed Fox News Digital a list of other attacks in Nigeria in the last month.
- March 24 – Dundu Village, Bassa Lga. The militants ambushed three Christian farmers while they were cultivating their land.
- March 27 – Ruwi Community, Bokkos Lga. Fulani’s militants killed 11 Christians who attended a funeral.
- April 2. – Bokkos Lga, militants attacked the village of Tamiso, where women were having a Christian communion meeting in a cooking church (Church of Christ in the nations), killing at least five. The town of Dafo was also attacked, killing two.
- April 6: The militants killed four people in the Pyakmula village in Bokkos Lga.
- April 7 – Harra Village at Bassa Lga killing three people.
- April 8: Three separate attacks were released, killing at least two in Bassa Lga.
- April 11: The militants attacked Zogu’s village in Bassa Lga, killing three people, a father and their two children. The father was beheaded by militants, according to the OD field contacts.
Nigeria occupies the seventh place in the 2025 world -door surveillance list, an annual index of countries where Christians face the greatest persecution.
“The Christians in the north and center of Nigeria face an extreme violence of Boko Haram, Iswap, (Western Africa Province of the Islamic State) and Armed Fulani militants who have killed thousands of believers, destroyed hundreds of churches and displaced whole Christian communities,” Ryan Brown, CEO of Open Doos US, said Fox News Digital. “Recent attacks in the representation of the State of Plateau Another chapter in this crisis in progress of religious persecution.
“These attacks have devastated communities that were still recovering from the Christmas Eve massacre that killed approximately 200 Christians in the same region in 2023.”
The Nigerian soldiers ensure the area outside the Catholic Church of San Francisco in the city of Owo, Nigeria, on June 6, 2022, a day after an attack that attacked the faithful. (Photo AP/Domingo Alamba)
Brown added that families have lost male supporters, with women and children of sexual assault.
“The survivors now live in at least four displacement camps, face food insecurity and cannot access education or worship safely,” Brown added.
Bishop Ayuba Matawal has outlined Islamist murderers. Matawal is president of the Nigerian Popular Overflowing Committee of Bokkos.
“It seems that some of these extremists have indoctrinated in the legs with an ideology of seizing the land of the Christian communities, continuing the legacy of Uthman that the vision of fodios to spread Islam in Nigeria,” he said. “Although their number can be small, these extremists have inflicted serious damage to Christian communities.”
The King of the ICC told Fox News Digital that he is calling the State Department to list Nigeria “as a country of participable concern (CPC).”
This is a United States government label that means real sanctions, pressure and consequences.
King added that he believes that the United States should “cut all help (financial and military) to Nigeria until we start seeing a significant reduction in attacks, arrested perpetrators and restored lands.”
The rangers patrol in the Kainji Lake National Park in the state of Niger in Niger in February 2023. (Nigerian Conservation Foundation through AP)
WHILE NOT MENTIONING THE ATTACKS ON CHRISTS, A STATE DEPARTMENT SPOWESPERSON TOLD FOX NEWS DIGITAL, “THE UNITED STATES REMAINS DEEPY CONCERNED BY THE ONGOING VIOLENCE IN WEST AFRICA, INCLUDING IN NIGIA’S MIDDLE BELT. Consits to the victim’s consits to the victim’s consensits to the victim’s consits to the victim’s “to the victim’s” to the victim’s sates.
“We are also continuously relating to the Nigeria government at the highest levels to address (the) causes of violence, and firmly advocated the protection of all citizens.
“We recognize the commitment of the president (Nigerian) Tinubu to address the causes of violence and urge the government to take significant and decisive measures to avoid more attacks, guarantee the responsibility of perpetrators and the rhythm and stabilization of promoting”
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In Nigeria, Bishop Matawal warned that, this Easter weekend, “Christian communities are on a maximum alert, church services, especially the duration and religious meetings.”
“Nigerian Christians carry their cross every day, but their hope rises as resurrection,” King said. “Easter has to do with life winning about death, and these Christians are living that. But we are going to cry and say” we listen to you, we are with you, they endure a little more. “
Fox News Digital communicated with the Nigerian government, but did not receive an answer.
