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Islamic Attacks on Nigerian Christians Escalate
[PJMedia]  Nigerian Christians are facing one of the most Between January and the close of April, International Christian Concern (ICC) says that it had documented "a dramatic rise in attacks against Christian communities in Nigeria." In the span of a little over three months, ICC soberly reported, over 300 Christians were killed. Dozens more were kidnapped while thousands were displaced as Islamic jihadi violence continues to escalate in Nigeria. Unfortunately, Nigerian authorities still largely fail to address the raging violence or help its victims. Today, on this feast of St. Joseph the Worker, commemorating Jesus’s foster father who had to flee with Mary and Jesus to Egypt to escape a murderous tyrant’s wrath, let us pray for the Christians in Nigeria and other countries who constantly face the bloodthirsty hatred of their own Herods. The Nigerian states of Plateau, Kaduna, Benue, Ebonyi, and Nasarawa states continue to be the scene of religiously-motivated terrorism, per ICC: Posted by: trailing wife 2025-05-03 |
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