Calls for us action against the background of rising violence against Christians in Nigeria

It will be an unhappy and scary Easter for Christians in Nigeria.

Murder and persecution of Christians Islamist militants who intend to create a Muslim caliphate in this Western African country continues, obviously, not to check, despite the fact that the population was 46% Christian.

“Nigeria’s Christians are destroyed; we need to call it that there is a genocide,” said Jeff King, President of the International Christian Concern (MCC), Caler’s Persecution, Fox News Digital.

“Let’s start with the horrible attacks on April 2-3, 2025, in (Nigeria) Plateau, Bokas District. More than 60 Christians were stabbed and 383 houses were set on fire,” King said. “The families were burned alive and the children remained homeless. That’s loud.

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At least 51 Christians were killed in another attack on Plateau Nigeria. (Reuters)

The king believes that Nigeria is a murder for Christians, and that it is not accidental violence. He continued with numbers confirmed by local leaders on Earth in Nigeria.

“This is a Fulani’s estimated impetus to erase Christians from the Motherland, Nigeria’s Middle Belt. From 2001 to 100,000 Christians were defeated, and 3.5 million farmers broke out of their land by Islamist terrorists, Fulan.

“This is a large-scale land, dressed in dispute or tribal spot. What we see is a mass and long stel-jihad.”

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It is reported that one woman who said the ICC said, “They want our land, our lives, our Jesus.”

Last weekend, the ICC and local sources claim that another 54 Christians were killed after a celebration in the palm of the Zickke village near Jos. The attack was reportedly lasted for a lasting hour, without trying the authorities to stop it.

Members of the Catholic Church of St. Leo hold a march to Mark Palm on Sunday in Ikea, Lagos, Nigeria, April 13, 2025. (Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images)

Members of the Christian group Open UK door Nigeria showed a digital list of Fox News Digital last month on the list of other attacks in Nigeria.

• March 24 – Danda village, Bassa LGA. The militants were ambushed by three Christian farmers while they grew their land.
• March 27 – community Ruwi, Bokkos LGA. Fulani’s militants killed 11 Christians who visited the funeral.
• April 2 – Bokkos LGA, militants attacked the village of Tamis, where women held a meeting of Christian scholarship in the Church of Kokin (the Church of Christ in the People), killed at least five. Dapar was also attacked in the village of Dafa, two.
• April 6 – militants killed four people in the village of Pakmul in LGO in Bokas.
• April 7 – Harra village in the LGA bass killed three people.
• April 8 – Three separate attacks were launched, which killed at least two in Bassa LGA.
• April 11 – The militants attacked the village of Zoga in Bass -lga, killed by three people, father and two sons. The father was cut off by his head, according to contacts with OD.

Nigeria ranks seventh in the World Open Doors view list, an annual index of countries where Christians face the most persecution.

“Christians in Northern and Central Nigeria face extraordinary violence Boko HaramISWAP (Islamic State West African province) and armed Fulani militants who killed thousands of believers destroyed hundreds of churches and expelled entire Christian communities, “said Ryan Brown, CEO of Open Doors US, Fox News Digital.

“These attacks have devastated communities, which were still being restored after the massacre, which killed about 200 Christians in the same region in 2023.”

Nigerian soldiers provide an area outside the Catholic Church of St. Francis in Ovo, Nigeria, June 6, 2022, a day after an attack aimed at believers. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Families have lost male nursing men, and women and children are often sexual attacks, Brown added.

“Now the survivors live in at least four movements, faced with food security and unable to get a safe education or worship,” Brown added.

Bishop Ayuba watched Islamist killers. Mataval is the chairman of the Nigerian Bocas, an internally displaced People’s Committee.

“It turns out that some of these extremists were in a state of ideology of seizure of land in Christian communities, continuing the vision of the heritage of Utman Dan Fodio to spread Islam through Nigeria,” he said. “Although their number may be small, these extremists have caused serious damage to Christian communities.”

King MCC said Fox News Digital what calls State Department on Nigeria List “As a country that raises particular concern (CCP).”

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King added that he believes that the US should “cut off all (financial and military) assistance to Nigeria until we begin to see a significant decline in the attacks arrested and restored.”

Patrol Rangers in Lake Keny National Park in Nigeria in February 2023. (Nigerian security Fund using AP)

Despite the fact that without mentioning the attacks on Christians, the State Department’s press -secretary said Fox News Digital: “The United States remains deeply concerned about the constant violence in West Africa, including the Nigeria’s average.

“We also continue to interact with the Nigeria government at the highest levels to resolve () root causes of violence, and we persistently advocate the protection of all citizens.

“We recognize President Tinuba’s (Nigerian) commitment to resolve the reasons for violence and call on the government to take significant and decisive steps to prevent further attacks, ensuring responsibility for criminals and promote long -term peace and stability”

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In Nigeria, Bishop Mataval warned this Easter weekend“Christian communities are more ready, especially during church services and religious meetings.”

“Nigerian Christians carry their cross every day, but their hope increases as resurrection,” King said. “Easter is all about a life that wins death, and these Christians live.

The Digital Fox News appealed to the Nigeria government but did not receive a response.