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Over 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since the outbreak of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in 2009, a newly-released report published by a Nigerian non-governmental organization has revealed.
The report, titled “Martyred Christians in Nigeria”, has been published by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law , a Nigerian-based research and investigative rights group, which has been monitoring and investigating religious persecution and other forms of religious violence by State and non-State actors across Nigeria since 2010According to its findings, over the past 14 years at least 52,250 Nigerian Christians have been brutally murdered at the hands of Islamist...
The outlook for 2023 does not seem any better, with over 1,000 Christians killed since the beginning of the year. Within the same period, at least 707 Christians were kidnapped, out of which the Northern Nigerian Niger State recorded more than 200 abductions, including 14 March 2023 abduction of over 100 Christians in Adunu . At least 101 anti-Christian abductions were recorded in Kaduna while other affected States include Katsina, Taraba, Edo, Ogun, Nassarawa, Kwara, Kogi, Borno, Yobe and Adawama Bauchi, Enugu, Imo, Kebbi, Gombe, Bayelsa and Cross River.
The attacks have led to mass forcible displacement. About 5 million Christians have been displaced and forced into Internally Displaced Persons camps within Nigeria and refugee camps at regional and sub-regional borders, the Intersociety report says.The Intersociety report confirms that Nigeria has become one of the most dangerous places to live for Christians in Africa. the interdenominational foundation that supports persecuted Christians in the world.
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