At least 20 Christians were, last weekend, k!lled by Islamist Fulani militias in Kaduna State.
Reports say the terrorists kidnapped 14 women and children in the attacked community
A publication by Visegrad24 states that more than 80% of Christians k!lled for their religion across the world are Nigerian citizens.
In a video showing the k!lling of the 20 Christians last weekend, the terrorists were seen shooting sporadically as people scampered to safety.
Reports say that by December2024, an estimated 295 Christians were k!lled in a wave of well-coordinated attacks spanning Christmas Eve, 24 December 2023, in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.
The d3ad were mostly women and children including physically challenged people who were unable to run and were burnt alive.
The attacks by Fulani Islamist militia groups began on the evening of 23 December and finished on the morning of Christmas Day.
A Christian woman, widowed in an Islamist attack ten years ago, recovers in hospital from bullet wounds inflicted in one of the Christmas Eve attacks in Plateau State in which a number of her family were killed
Twenty-five remote and widely scattered villages were targeted. In total more than 1,500 homes were burnt, eight churches destroyed, many hundreds of people injured and 30,000 displaced.
Two pastors were killed. One of them, Rev. Jonathan Daluk, in Tudun Mazat village, fled with his family but realising that his mother and brother were still back in the vicarage, went back for them and all three were killed.