Attacks upon Christians in Nigeria continue with astonishing regularity. Christians in Nigeria have been brutalized and killed with impunity for years now, with little or no response from the Nigerian government or military, both of which frequently appear to sympathize with the attackers.
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“Eighteen killed in Christian-majority southern Kaduna State by suspected Fulani Islamist militants,” Barnabas Fund, July 13, 2021:
Eighteen Nigerians were killed in Christian-majority southern Kaduna State when suspected Fulani Islamist militants stormed two villages in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area.
Nine villagers died and a number of houses were destroyed in Makarau on Sunday, 11 July in an assault that began at around 5 p.m.
“These attacks are too much for us to bear, no one is safe in our communities,” said a resident. “Nobody can go to his farm now.”
Residents of Warkan were asleep when a large number of gunmen swept into the village at 2 a.m. on 9 July, killing nine villagers and razing houses. Many others were injured. “The entire village is in confusion,” said a resident. “The destruction by the suspected Fulani is unbelievable.”
The attacks were condemned by the Congress of Northern Nigeria Christians (CNNC), which called on the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari and State Governor Nasir El-Rufai to protect people from the “incessant killings” and increased kidnappings in the region, including the 5 July abductions of scores of pupils from Bethel Baptist High School.
In a statement, the CNNC said the growing insecurity has made it almost impossible for farmers to go to their farms and people to go about their daily lives thereby increasing poverty in the land and making an already bad situation worse.
Christian congress calls for prayers for God’s intervention
It added, “We are calling on the good people of Nigeria and the Christian body as a whole to please rise up and pray for God’s intervention to touch the hearts of those that have given themselves to killings, kidnapping, rape, maiming and the destruction of properties to have a rethink and stop.”…
