According to sources, less than a week after the U.S. removal of Nigeria’s designation as engaging in or tolerating violations of religious freedom, Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (Nov. 23) killed two more Christian farmers in Plateau state, and earlier 38 Christians were slain in Kaduna state.
Fulani herdsmen killed 10 Christians, including three children, in an attack in Plateau state, Nigeria in the early hours of Friday (Nov. 26), sources said.
On Tuesday, religious freedom advocacy group International Christian Concern (ICC) named the Taliban, Kim Jong-un, and Nigeria the top 3 Christian persecutors of 2021.
Late last month, two Christians were killed, and 66 worshipers were abducted by armed bandits in Nigeria’s Kaduna State. The bandits attacked the church during a service.
Two Christians were killed in an attack on a church service in southern Kaduna state on Sunday (Oct. 31), with eight others slain in earlier assaults on predominantly Christian villages, sources said.
A medical doctor and pastor who headed a wholistic Christian ministry in northeast Nigeria has reportedly been shot to death.
According to sources, a kidnapped Christian in Kogi state, Nigeria, was killed in a rescue operation on Saturday (Oct. 2), the same day three other Christians were killed in another attack in the state.
Sources said that last week a Muslim mob in northern Nigeria, agitated over the killing of a woman by a man they believed had converted to Christianity, hacked a pastor to death with machetes and burned down his home, church and school.
Nigerian community leaders are arguing that the killing of the Rev. Silas Yakubu Ali and more than 50 other Christians in an area of Kaduna State, Nigeria, in the past two months shows that Christians are under siege from Muslim Fulani herdsmen.
