{"id":2611478,"date":"2026-06-06T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christians-are-being-hunted-like-sport\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:43:56","slug":"christians-are-being-hunted-like-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christians-are-being-hunted-like-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians Are Being Hunted Like Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchristians-are-being-hunted-like-sport%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2611478&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text argues that Christians in Nigeria are being openly targeted and killed by Islamist Fulani militants as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/your-christian-family-is-being-hunted-like-animals-and-exterminated-in-nigeria-will-you-ignore-it\/\" title=\"Your Christian Family Is Being Hunted Like Animals and Exterminated in ... - Will You Ignore It?\">religious extermination campaign<\/a>, not a tribal or land-related conflict. It cites claims that a large share of global faith-based Christian killings happen in Nigeria, including ongoing attacks like mass shootings and village burnings in states such as Benue and Plateau. It recounts specific incidents-describing hundreds killed in one village and dozens killed during palm Sunday 2026-and emphasizes that the violence happens with little accountability.<\/p>\n<p>It notes that U.S. politicians and the Trump governance have taken steps labeling or addressing the crisis, but the author says these measures have not meaningfully changed outcomes. The piece then urges readers to respond through serious prayer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-governors-press-secretary-resigns-after-appearing-to-suggest-violence-against-transphobes\/\" title=\"Arizona Governor\u2019s Press Secretary Resigns After Appearing to Suggest Violence Against \u2018Transphobes\u2019\">specific victims<\/a> and communities, donate to organizations working on the ground, and use their public voice-calling the atrocities \u201cgenocide\u201d when applicable with the aim of increasing pressure for government action. The overall message is that Nigerian Christians are part of the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faith-leaders-try-to-shake-down-wealthy-nations-over-climate-change\/\" title=\"Faith Leaders Try to Shake Down Wealthy Nations over Climate Change\">global faith community<\/a> and deserve solidarity rather than distant pity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>There is nothing covert about what is happening to Christians in Nigeria. The men carrying out these attacks are not hiding their intentions. They are broadcasting them.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors report that Islamist Fulani militants tell them directly, as they burn their homes and cut down their neighbors: \u201cWe will destroy all Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is not the language of a land dispute or a tribal conflict, no matter how many times the Nigerian government has tried to frame it that way. That is a religious extermination campaign, and it is being carried out in the open, with near-total impunity, while most of the Western world looks the other way.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 4,849 Christians killed for their faith worldwide in the past year, 3,490 of them, 72 percent of the global total, were killed in Nigeria. No other country on earth comes close to those numbers, and yet Nigeria rarely trends on social media.<\/p>\n<p>It rarely leads the evening news. The massacres come and go, and the world moves on.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Society for International Human Rights, an average of 30 Christians were murdered every single day in Nigeria throughout 2025. Going back further, since 2009, an estimated 125,000 Christians have been killed. More than 19,100 churches have been burned to the ground, and over 1,100 Christian communities have been seized and occupied by jihadist forces.<\/p>\n<p>To understand what those numbers look like on the ground, consider what happened in Benue State on the night of June 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Fulani militants surrounded the village of Yelwata after dark. Julius Joor, the village head, described what he witnessed \u2014 attackers shooting and killing people, forcing families out of their homes, pouring fuel, and setting houses on fire. When it was over, approximately 150 Christians were dead.<\/p>\n<p>That was a single night, in a single village, in a country where this happens constantly.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks do not even stop for the holiest days of the Christian calendar. On Palm Sunday 2026, militants entered the predominantly Christian community of Angwan Rukuba in Plateau State and opened fire on residents, killing at least 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from nearby communities indicated that at least 10 more were killed the same day in separate attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Palm Sunday. The day Christians around the world celebrate Christ\u2019s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and Nigerian believers were being shot in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley has publicly labeled what is happening as genocide. Sen. Ted Cruz introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act. The Trump administration officially designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baffling-error-joe-biden-removes-nigeria-from-religious-oppressor-list-despite-christian-persecution\/\" title=\"&#039;Baffling Error:&#039; Joe Biden Removes ... from Religious Oppressor List Despite Christian Persecution\">religious freedom violations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are meaningful steps, and they deserve recognition. But designations do not bury the dead, and accountability has so far remained largely on paper.<\/p>\n<p>They are our family, and they need us to remember that.<\/p>\n<p>It can be easy, when reading statistics like these, to feel the weight of them for a moment and then set them down and go on with your day. The distance feels too vast. The problem feels too large. But the Christian faith does not give us that option, and it never has.<\/p>\n<p>The believers being slaughtered in Benue and Plateau States are not a separate branch of Christianity happening somewhere far away from you. They are members of the same Body you belong to. They confess the same Lord, hold the same hope, and are sealed by the same Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>When they suffer, Scripture tells us plainly that we suffer with them, whether we are paying attention or not (1 Corinthians 12:26).<\/p>\n<p>So the question is not whether their suffering has anything to do with you. It does. The question is what you are going to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>Start with prayer, and take it seriously. Bring the villages of Benue State before God by name. Pray for the widows of Yelwata, for the children who lost their fathers on Palm Sunday, for the pastors still standing in pulpits in communities that have been attacked again and again. These are real people with real names, and they deserve to be prayed for as such, not just folded into a vague request for \u201cpersecuted Christians around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then consider giving to the organizations that are actually on the ground in Nigeria, Open Doors International and International Christian Concern among them. They are rebuilding churches, supporting displaced families, and standing with believers when their own government has failed them.<\/p>\n<p>The resources you send are not symbolic gestures. For many of these families, they are the difference between survival and collapse.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, use your voice.  what is happening. Say the word genocide when it applies, because applying accurate language to atrocities is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >ways ordinary people create<\/a> the pressure that eventually moves governments to act.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian church is not a charity case. These are some of the most resilient, faith-filled believers on the planet, worshipping in the ashes of burned churches and praising God over the graves of their martyrs.<\/p>\n<p>What they need from you is not pity. It is solidarity. It is the knowledge that the global Body of Christ sees them, stands with them, and refuses to let their suffering disappear quietly into a news cycle.<\/p>\n<p>They are your family. 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