A Christian Adara woman prays while attending the Sunday s service at Ecwa Church, Kajuru, Kaduna State, Nigeria, on April 14, 2019. | LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images
Islamic jihadists murdered at least 1,470 Christians and abducted over 2,200 in Nigeria in the first four months of this year, a report has revealed. More than half of the killings were carried out by Muslim Fulani herdsmen.
The number of Christians murdered within the first four months of this year is the highest since 2014 and goes beyond the total number of Christians killed in 2019, a Nigerian civil society group, Intersociety Rule of Law, says in a report released this week.
1,470 Christians Killed in Nigeria Within Four Months
05/14/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – According to the rights group Intersociety Rule of Law, 1,470 Christians were murdered and over 2,200 were abducted by jihadists in the first four months of 2021.
“The latest research investigation conducted by Intersociety
took weeks and cut across all the troubling Christian areas of the country,” states the report,
“The number of defenseless Christians killed in Nigeria from Jan to April 2021 [is] 1,470; out of which Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for the death of over 800.”
The rights group included a 26-page reference in their report citing backup statistics which aided their findings, along with several other eye-witness testimonies and survivor stories.
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Nigeria has devastatingly remained the “most Christian killed country” and ‘most dangerous place to be a Christian’ as well as Africa’s newest hotbed of Islamic Jihad and religious intolerance. Statistically shocking is the fact that the country had in the past four months or from January to April 2021 lost no fewer than 1,470 Christians. Also out of estimated 3200 defenseless Nigerians abducted by jihadists during the period, Nigerian Christians accounted for no fewer than 2,200. The 1, 470 Christian deaths in four months is the highest number recorded since 2014 and it specifically surpassed the total number of Christians killed in the whole of 2019, estimated by the Open Doors to be 1,350. It is recalled that the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law had in early January 2021 statistically disclosed that more than 2,400 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by jihadists in Nigeria in 20
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Across Nigeria, Christians have been targeted for attacks by Muslim fundamentalists, usually either by Boko Haram or marauding Fulani herdsmen.
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Across Nigeria, Christians have been targeted for attacks by Muslim fundamentalists, usually either by Boko Haram or marauding Fulani herdsmen.
At least 3,500 Christians died from October 2019 to October 2020.
Ellis Heasley, Public Affairs Officer at Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), said there is a sustained campaign of violence which has been ongoing in multiple states in central Nigeria for over a decade now, and which increased in severity in recent years.