Calls for US action amid growing violence against Christians in Nigeria

It will be a miserable and terrible Easter for Christians in Nigeria.

Murder and persecution of Christians Islamist militants who intend to create a Muslim Caliphate in this West African country continues obviously unausified, despite the fact that the population was 46% of Christians.

“The Christians in Nigeria have been deleted; we have to call it what it is – genocide,” said Jeff King, President of International Christian Concern (ICC), persecution for Fox News Digital.

“Let’s start with terrible attacks of 2-3 April 2025, in the (Nigerian) State of the Plateau of Darkos County. Over 60 Christians (either) displayed and 383 homes,” King said. “Families are burned alive and the children remained homeless. It is the gut. The worst part is that there is nothing in this attack. It has been going on for 20 years and it has just expanded.”

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King believes Nigeria is a killing for Christians and that is not a accidental violence. He continued with figures, which was confirmed by local leaders on the field in Nigeria.

“This is to calculate the pressure from Fulanis to erase Christians from their homeland, the middle belt of Nigeria. From 2001, up to 100,000 Christians were cut, and 3.5 million farmers threw out their country by Islamist terrorists Fulani.

“This is massively grabbing a country disguised as a dispute or a tribal shower. What we witness is a massive and long -last hidden jihad.”

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It is reported that a widow woman said in an attack by ICC: “They want our country, our life, our Jesus.”

Last weekend, ICC and local sources claim, 54 more Christians were slaughtered after celebrating at the Palm Sunday service in the village of Zikka, near Josa. The attack was reportedly a solid hour, without trying to stop him.

Members of the Christian group Open door UK In Nigeria, Fox News Digital has shown a list of other attacks in Nigeria in the last month.

• March 24 – Village Dund, Bassa LGA. The militants sat three Christian farmers as they raised their country.
• March 27 – Ruwi Community, Forth LGA. Fulani militants killed 11 Christians who attended the funeral.
• April 2 – Flash LGA, militants attacked the village of Tamiso, where women had a Christian community at the Cocin Church (Church of Christ in Nations), killing at least five. The village of Dafo also attacked, killing two.
• 6. April – militants killed four people in the village of Pyakmul in the flag of LGA.
• April 7 – The village of Harra in Bassa LGA killing three people.
• April 8 – Three separate attacks were launched, killing at least two in Bassa LGA.
• April 11 – The militants attacked the village of Zoga in Bassa Lga, killing three people, his father and his two sons. The father cut the militants, according to contacts from Field.

Nigeria is seventh in the world list of Watch Open, the annual index of countries where Christians face the most persecution.

“Christians in northern and central Nigeria face extreme violence of Boko HaramIswap, (Islamic State of the Western African Province) and armed Fulani militants who killed thousands of believers, destroyed hundreds of churches and displaced all the Christian communities, “Ryan Brown, Open Doors CEO, told Fox News Digital.” Recent attacks by Hitau State in this other capitals.

“These attacks ravaged the communities that were still recovering from a Christmas Eve massacre in which about 200 Christians in the same region were killed in the same region.”

Families have lost men’s feeders, and women and children are often sexually attacked, Brown added.

“Survivors now live in at least four displacement camps, facing food uncertainty and cannot safely approach education or worship,” Brown added.

Bishop Ayuba Matawal profiled Islamist killer. Matawal is the chairman of the Nigerian Bokkos, who is an internally displaced committee for the benefit of the people.

“It seems that some of these extremists are indoctrinated with the ideology of seizing the land of Christian communities, continuing the inheritance of Uthman’s vision of Fodia to spread Islam in Nigeria,” he said. “Although their number may be small, these extremists have caused serious damage to Christian communities.”

King ICC said Fox News Digital to call for State Department for the Nigeria List “As a country of special concern (CPC).”

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King added that he believed that now they should “cut off all (financial and military) assistance to Nigeria until we start seeing a significant reduction in the attack, arrested perpetrators and renewed countries.”

Although they do not mention attacks on Christians, a spokesman for State Department told Fox News Digital, “the United States remains deeply concerned about continuous violence in West Africa, including in the Nigerian middle belt.

“We are also still dealing with the government of Nigeria at the highest levels to solve the () root causes of violence and strongly advocate to the protection of all citizens.

“We admit (Nigerian) President Tinubu to address the causes of violence and persuade the Government to take meaningful and decisive steps to prevent further attacks, ensure responsibility for the perpetrators and encourage long -term peace and stability.”

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In Nigeria, Bishop Matawal warned that, this Easter weekend“Christian communities are in great standby, especially during the ecclesiastical services and religious gatherings.”

“Nigerian Christians wear their cross every day, but their hope is growing like the resurrection,” King said. “Easter is all about life that wins because of death, and these Christians live it. But, let’s shout and say,” We hear you, we are with you, just stay a little longer. “

Fox News Digital addressed the Nigerian government, but did not get an answer.