While the threat of genocide from jihadists in Syria makes headlines, the genocide of Christians in Nigeria goes untouched, unnoticed, and unresolved.
Even self-important speculative bloggers, quick to leap for the ‘who’s to blame?’ dollar, appear to be more interested in bashing Israel, and the West than they are about securing Syria’s Christians.
Like Nigeria, if persecuted Christians cannot be exploited for political posturing, there’s no interest in Christians suffering.
Since Caldron Pool started covering the Islamist war on Nigeria’s Christians in 2019, little has changed.
As recently as Dec.1, 48 Christians were slaughtered after Fulani Muslims in central Nigeria’s Benue state gunned them down.
300-armed herdsman ‘attacked predominantly Christian communities in Logo and Katsina-Ala counties,’ reported Morning Star.
Community leader Joseph Anawah told the Christian persecution watchdog,
‘They overwhelmingly attacked our people, shooting anyone in sight.’
Although the Nigerian government promises to bring an end to the killings, World Watch Monitor said, Christians are still being targeted by Muslim herdsmen, and the jihadist group Boko Haram.
Up to 100 Nigerian Christians had been slaughtered since October.
Muslim ‘Fulani-tribe terrorists, and local Tiv mercenaries hired by them, have been unleashing mayhem on the locals who are chiefly Catholic.’
‘Benue has been an ethnic killing zone for years.’
Last week, International Christian Concern (ICC), reported the murder of a pastor, and businesswoman, in two separate attacks.
Although witnesses identified the killers as Muslim, ‘authorities have only categorized the attackers as unidentified gunmen’ or ‘bandits.’
‘The latest attacks reflect a broader trend of violence against Christians in Taraba and surrounding states,’ ICC explained.
In one instance, ‘Oluwakemi Moses Konye, a pastor’s wife, was killed while travelling with her infant child.’
Many believe, ICC added, ‘that these targeted attacks indicate a concerning trend aimed at destabilizing Christian populations in Nigeria’s Northern and Central regions.’
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Those that accept Christ are the true Chosen and evil is jealous that they have received the gift of eternal life.
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