Ongoing Christian Persecution + Other Headlines

Tuesday Digest (10.22.24)

Christians “Deliberately Targeted” in Nigeria

While the rest of the world focuses on the American presidential election and Israel’s wars, most of the media is sleeping on a huge story: the killing, persecution and displacement of millions of Christians in Nigeria. A major new report calls this reality “a time bomb” just waiting to blow up.

The Christian nonprofit Open Doors International shares information about global persecution, and its latest report says Christians are quickly becoming “an endangered species” in Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa and the 7th largest nation in the world. Of Nigeria’s 220 million people, around half identify as Christian and half as Muslim.

But persecution of Christians by militants in Nigeria’s Muslim-heavy north is rapidly spreading south, where the majority of Christians live, according to Fox News:

“Last year alone, in Nigeria there were more people that were killed because of their Christian faith than all other places in the globe combined,” Ryan Brown, the CEO Of Open Doors U.S., told Fox News Digital, adding “to be specific, there were 4998 Christians that were killed because of their faith in Nigeria last year.”

The attacks are being carried out by terror group Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province.