Nigeria: 74 Christians Martyred, More than 123 Abducted in Two Months

As you read this devastating report from Nigeria in September and October,

• Pray for those who mourn, that the Lord will comfort them and give them courage to forgive and to stand strong in their faith. Pray He will use them to show His love and peace in such powerful ways terrorists will come to faith by the thousands.
• Pray He will heal the minds and bodies of those who survived these attacks, setting them free from traumatic memories, and using them to help others to healing and freedom, as well.
• Pray by name for those who have been abducted, that God will surround them with His angels, strengthen and encourage them with His love, protect them from harm, use them to share the good news of salvation with their persecutors, and open the way for their safe escape.
• Pray for these Fulani and other Muslim murderers and kidnappers, that God will give them such a hunger for Him they will lay down their weapons, seek Truth with all their hearts and find Jesus. Pray He will visit them in their dreams and show them the way to salvation. Pray that when they seek to attack Christians, they will see with their own eyes the angels guarding them, fall to their knees in repentance, and choose Christ.
• Pray the violence against Christians will end. Pray the Lord will march in with His angel armies, crush the enemy’s plans and rescue His people. Pray that for every Christian persecuted and church attacked, 1,000 Fulani and Muslim extremists will come to faith in Jesus, and hundreds of new churches will be planted. Pray He will turn what the enemy meant for evil into great good for His Kingdom.

BENUE STATE: Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed three Christians and kidnapped another, Iorhon Dam, early Sunday morning, October 29, in Tse Gamber village, Gwer West County. At the same time, three more Christians were murdered in Ngai village. On October 23, terrorists killed three Christians in Agagbe village.

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On October 14, Fulani herdsmen killed three Christians in Imatom village, Logo County. Three other Christians were slain October 5 in Guma County.

In addition, a Christian who had been kidnapped from his home in Zakibiam September 23 was killed October 23 because his family couldn’t pay the $6,340 ransom.

NASARAWA STATE: Stephen Angbas, a Christian doctor and head of Angbas Hospital, was brutally attacked and killed by terrorists wielding machetes on October 17. His motorcycle driver was injured in the attack, as well. Nasarawa has been hit hard this year with attacks on Christians.

On September 20, Fulani herdsmen attacked Kola village in Akwanga County, killing one Christian and wounding three others.

KADUNA STATE: On October 31, Fulani herdsmen attacked Ungwan Baka village in Kachia County, killing one Christian, wounding two and abducting 25. In April, assailants kidnapped eight girls from a public high school in that area. The military rescued them two weeks later.

At Kaduna State University, Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola, a Christian chemistry student, is being kept against her will and forced to convert to Islam by a university staff member in the biochemistry department and the imam of Sultan Bello Mosque, among other Muslim leaders.

On October 7, more than 30 Christians were kidnapped at gunpoint while working on a communal farm in Chikuri, Chicken County.

A week earlier, one believer was killed and 19 were abducted in the mostly Christian village of Angwan Waku, Kajuru County. Their names are Yakubu Abba, Basiru Maiwada, Keziya Silas, Peace Silas, Lami Istifanus, Habila Musa, Bege Liazarus, Joshua Abuki, Juliana Habila, Stella Yohanna, Genesis Ezikiel, Deborah Ezikiel, Salomi Dutse, Rifkatu Zaphaniah, Tamar Liazarus, Ejah Habila, Rejoice Ezikeil, Catharine Silas and Gundu Rubu.

At the end of September, Fulani and other terrorists attacked Angwan Magaji village in Kauru County, killing three Christians, after killing three others in Kigali village. Assailants also attacked Takkanai village, Zangon County, killing six Christians and wounding four others. In Kigam village, Kauru County, three Christians were killed and three others wounded. In Mararaban Rido village, Chikun County, six Christians were kidnapped and another Christian killed.

On September 15, Fulani murdered 15 Christians and kidnapped 32 in Dogon Noma village, Kajuru County. Such attacks have led to the deaths of 23 pastors and the closing of 200 church buildings in Kaduna state in the past four years.

On September 7, Fulani terrorists attempted to enter the rectory of a Catholic Church in Fadan Kamantan to abduct the priest. But unable to enter, they set it on fire, killing a Catholic seminary student.

ONDO STATE: Choir members of a Pentecostal church in Akure were intercepted by terrorists on their way to a funeral at the end of September, and 25 were taken captive. Eight have escaped, including a nurse, but the kidnappers are demanding $64,770 for the remaining 17.

PLATEAU STATE: On October 1, Fulani and other terrorists killed eight Christians, including two children, and wounded five others in Du village, Bassa County. Four days earlier, three Christians were killed in Atuhun Panama village, Mangu County.

On September 13, gunmen abducted Pastor Usman Umaru and two other Christians, Agwom Dauda and a woman named Sarah, from the Maigyemu community in Jos East County.

On September 10, Fulani and other terrorists murdered 10 Christians in Kulben village, Mangu County. The previous month, armed Fulani herdsmen attacked a high school in Riyom County, killing two Christian teachers as they taught in the classroom, and wounding the principal and others.

TARABA STATE: On September 10, terrorists killed two Christians, wounded several others and kidnapped six in the Mile Six area of Jalingo. On September 8, two others were abducted on the road between Manya and Gangum.

(Compiled from Morning Star News reports.)

Although Nigeria is a majority Christian nation, about 90% of the world’s Christian martyrs are killed in that country, ranking it 6th on Open Doors’ World Watchlist of most dangerous countries for those who follow Jesus. Last year, 5,014 Christians died for their faith in Nigeria, and this year, hundreds more martyrs have fallen at the hands of Fulani, Boko Haram and other Muslim terrorists. Nigeria also holds the record for most Christians abducted (4,726), sexually assaulted, forcibly married to Muslims and physically or mentally abused.

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