Attack on Christians, 8 dead, including a murdered priest

Eight Christians were killed and a church burned on May 19 in an attack on Chicken, in the state of Kaduna, in the north of Nigeria.

Several houses were also burned during the attack. TheInternational Christian Concern, a US-based religious persecution watchdog.

The next day, a Malunfashi, in the state of Katsina, also in the north of the country, two armed men entered a Catholic Church and killed a priest and kidnapped another.

These terrible actions are far from isolated. 1.470 Christians were murdered and more than 2.200 were kidnapped by jihadists in the first four months of 2021, according to the rights group Intersociety Rule of Law.

In the 2021 annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (EXCIRF), the commissioner Gary L. Bauer he described Nigeria as a "land of death" for Christians.

According to him, the country is heading towards a genocide of Christians. "Too often, this violence is attributed to mere 'bandits' or explained as hostility between farmers and shepherds," he said. Gary Bauer. “Although there is some truth in these statements, they ignore the main truth. Radical Islamists are committing violence inspired by what they believe is a religious imperative to "cleanse" Nigeria of its Christians. They must be prevented ”. Source: Evangelique. info.

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