Sultan Bello Mosque in the city of Kaduna, Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Anasskoko, Creative Commons)
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked a village in northern Nigeria on early Tuesday (Oct. 31), killing one Christian, wounding two and kidnapping 25 others, sources said.
In southern Kaduna state’s village of Ungwan Baka, Kachia County, the assailants attacked while residents were asleep, said area resident Emmanuei Yusuf.
“The Christian villagers were attacked in the early hours of Tuesday,” Yusuf told Morning Star News in a text message. “The injured victims are currently being treated in the hospital.”
Another resident, Herbert Chindo, said Christian communities in the Kachia area have suffered prior attacks by armed herdsmen and other terrorists.
“This is the third attack on our community,” Chindo said. “Please pray for us.”
On April 3, armed assailants invaded the area and kidnapped eight Christian girls from the Government Secondary School, a public high school in Awon, said area resident Jonah Ayuba. The girls were rescued by the military on April 18, he said.
Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014, according to Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) report. It also led the world in Christians abducted (4,726), sexually assaulted or harassed, forcibly married or physically or mentally abused, and it had the most homes and businesses attacked for faith-based reasons. As in the previous year, Nigeria had the second most church attacks and internally displaced people.
In the 2023 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria jumped to sixth place, its highest ranking ever, from No. 7 the previous year.
“Militants from the Fulani, Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and others conduct raids on Christian communities, killing, maiming, raping and kidnapping for ransom or sexual slavery,” the WWL report noted. “This year has also seen this violence spill over into the Christian-majority south of the nation… Nigeria’s government continues to deny this is religious persecution, so violations of Christians’ rights are carried out with impunity.”
Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.
Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.
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- Sultan Bello Mosque in the city of Kaduna, Kaduna state, Nigeria. (Anasskoko, Creative Commons)
Greetings,
Why do you headline your journalist report of this horrific attack as being, “terrorist”?
Is this to grab readers attention or some similar reaction?
Reading through your article, I see no evidence of terrorist or terrorism even though the attack would have been terrible for the victims.
Are you able to edit your post title and content that would be more honest?
Or are you using the term, ‘terrorist’ because it is more neutral and not calling out the persecutors for who they are? Sometimes we have to really search for the right word and I encourage you to do so.
Let us pray for those whose lives have been shattered by this action against them.
Also, not much mention of the whereabouts of those kidnapped? Are you able to get a follow up and report, please?
Bless you
Who Even Cares about ANY of the Nigerian Christians – or ANY of those Christians in 140+ ‘Other Countries’ who are being Martyred -and Tortured -and Persecuted RIGHT NOW ? ? ?
– Because they “believeth” in “the Lord Jesus” ~ Romans 10:8-13 [AV]~[KJV]
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The ‘Religious Christian People’ here in my very proud and arrogant self-declared
>>> ‘Greatest Country in the world’ << Psalm 118:8-9 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 John 5:9 [AV]
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And those ‘Religious Christian People’ have chosen to deny – or ignore “the words of truth” written in Proverbs 8:13, 21:13 -and Ezekiel 16:49-50 -and Matthew 15:7-9 [AV]
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I am a Biblical “Christian” (Acts 11:26 ~ Romans 10:8-13 ~ Ephesians 4:4-6 ~AV) who lives in America
– And I am personally very-very-very thankful unto “the LORD JEHOVAH” (Isaiah 26:3-4 ~AV) for “the residue of men” who are “my brethren” “in Christ Jesus our Lord” who live in countries all around the world who “hath” also been ‘led’ by “the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost” (John 14:6, 26 ~AV) to pray Biblically for all men – and then for our “brethren” who also “believeth” in “our Lord Jesus Christ”
– And that includes all of “our brethren” who are actively being persecuted RIGHT NOW in 140+ countries all around the world
– For “we” do “by faith” “believeth” in “the words of truth” written unto “us” in James 5:16 [AV]
– SO – “We” pray first “the words of truth” that are written unto “us” in 1 Timothy, Chapter 2 [AV] :
[1] I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
[2] For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
[3] For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
[4] Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
[5] For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
[6] Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
~~~> 1 Samuel 12:23-25 ~ Verses 17-18 of Ephesians 6:10-20 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:23-25 ~ Hebrews 13:3
~~~> 1 John 3:13-14 [AV]
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NOTE – The Second Paragraph should read
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The ‘Religious Christian People’ here in my very proud and arrogant self-declared
======> ‘Greatest Country in the world’ of America DO NOT Psalm 118:8-9 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 John 5:9 [AV]
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Who Even Cares about ANY of the Nigerian Christians – or ANY of those Christians in 140+ ‘Other Countries’ who are being Martyred -and Tortured -and Persecuted RIGHT NOW ? ? ?
– Because they “believeth” in “the Lord Jesus” ~ Romans 10:8-13 [AV]~[KJV]
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The ‘Religious Christian People’ here in my very proud and arrogant self-declared
>>> ‘Greatest Country in the world’ << Psalm 118:8-9 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 John 5:9 [AV]
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And those ‘Religious Christian People’ have chosen to deny – or ignore “the words of truth” written in Proverbs 8:13, 21:13 -and Ezekiel 16:49-50 -and Matthew 15:7-9 [AV]
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Part ONE (1) of TWO (2)
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I am a Biblical “Christian” (Acts 11:26 ~ Romans 10:8-13 ~ Ephesians 4:4-6 ~AV) who lives in America
– And I am personally very-very-very thankful unto “the LORD JEHOVAH” (Isaiah 26:3-4 ~AV) for “the residue of men” who are “my brethren” “in Christ Jesus our Lord” who live in countries all around the world who “hath” also been ‘led’ by “the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost” (John 14:6, 26 ~AV) to pray Biblically for all men – and then for our “brethren” who also “believeth” in “our Lord Jesus Christ”
– And that includes all of “our brethren” who are actively being persecuted RIGHT NOW in 140+ countries all around the world
– For “we” do “by faith” “believeth” in “the words of truth” written unto “us” in James 5:16 [AV]
– SO – “We” pray first “the words of truth” that are written unto “us” in 1 Timothy, Chapter 2 [AV] :
[1] I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
[2] For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
[3] For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
[4] Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
[5] For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
[6] Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
~~~> 1 Samuel 12:23-25 ~ Verses 17-18 of Ephesians 6:10-20 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:23-25 ~ Hebrews 13:3
~~~> 1 John 3:13-14 [AV]
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Part TWO (2) of TWO (2)
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