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Christian Persecution in Nigeria refers to Christian-Muslim strife traced back to 1953. Religious violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko Haram insurgency to establish an Islamic State in Nigeria. Terrorist groups have killed Christians in a Silent Genocide in Nigeria.
General Ibrahim Babangida enrolled Nigeria in the Organization of the Islamic Conference in the 1980s. This enrollment aggravated religious tensions in the country, particularly in the Christian community.
In 2018, US President Donald Trump called out the killing of Christians in Nigeria.
In May 2022, Deborah Yakubu, a Christian student in Sokoto, was lynched outside her university by a Muslim mob. Violence occurred after the lynching against other Christians sites reported by the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto.
In June 2022, a massacre killed over 50 parishioners in the Saint Francis Xavier Church in Owo.
News of massacres of Christians continued to emerge regularly. Around Christmas 2023 at least 300 Christians were murdered in Plateau State, and no perpetrators were held accountable. In the Diocese of Makurdi, in Benue State, also in the Middle Belt, at least 500 Christians were killed in 2023.
A massacre occurred around Easter 2024 in Plateau State, killing at least 39 people, while at least 239 were killed in Benue State in the first quarter of 2024.
I leave a message to terrorist groups that kill Christians in a silent genocide, and I will return to the horrific topic later.
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Manuel Silveira 