International Christian Concern, a non-partisan Christian organization, has named Nigeria one of the world’s most dangerous nations for Christians.
In the previous 20 years, fanatics and militants have been killing Christians and dispossessing them of their lands, according to the organization.
This was said in the organization’s 2023 report on the world’s Christian persecutors.
According to the organization, Nigerian politicians have linked the attacks to farmer/herder confrontations laced with ethnic tensions.
The ICC investigation, however, defined the killings and other atrocities as genocide against Christians.
It partly read, “Nigeria is arguably the most dangerous place to be a Christian in the world today. In the North, a very hostile group of Muslim extremists have attacked and devastated the minority population of Christians. In the Middle Belt, armed Islamic terrorists, known as Fulani militants, have been killing Christians and stealing their land at a prodigious rate for the last 20 years.
“Between mass murder and land stealing, millions of Christians have been displaced. Since May 2011, Boko Haram alone has been recorded as being responsible for more than 38,000 deaths. Nigerian leaders tell the West that this is a complicated problem between herders and farmers with tribal overlays. But the truth is that we are witnessing a genocide of Christians in the North and Middle Belt, accompanied by an immense land grab.”
According to the ICC report, 549 Christians were killed in 55 incidents in Nigeria between March and July 2023.
