{"id":603601,"date":"2021-07-27T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=603601"},"modified":"2021-07-27T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T16:37:08","slug":"over-3000-christians-reportedly-killed-in-nigeria-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-3000-christians-reportedly-killed-in-nigeria-so-far-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 3,000 Christians Reportedly Killed In Nigeria So Far This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fover-3000-christians-reportedly-killed-in-nigeria-so-far-this-year%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=603601&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BH-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Roughly 3,462 Christians have been killed by Islamic militants in Nigeria this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenigerianvoice.com\/news\/300372\/3462-christians-hacked-to-death-by-nigerian-jihadists-in-20.html\"><span>International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 a Nigeria-based nonprofit \u2014 reports that the number of deaths halfway through 2021 is nearly equivalent to the number of deaths in all of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The group explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><i><span>This number further represents daily average Christian deaths of seventeen and second highest since 2014 when over 5000 Christian deaths were recorded in the hands of Boko Haram and Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen. While Boko Haram killed over 4000 Christians in 2014, the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for 1,229 Christian deaths. In our last report issued on 11th May 2021, covering January to April 2021, we found that no fewer than 1,470 Christians were hacked to death and in the past 80 days or 1st May to 18th July 2021, not less than 1, 992 Christian lives have been lost.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The group also observed a rise in the number of abducted Christians and damaged churches:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><i><span>We also found that no fewer than 780 additional Christians were abducted in 80 days or 1st May to 18th July whereas between 1st January and 30th April, 2200 were abducted. This brings the total number of the abducted Christians since January to 3000, out of which at least three out of every abducted thirty Christians were most likely to have died in captivity; thereby indicating additional secret death in jihadists\u2019 captivity of 300 Christians\u2026 The number of Churches threatened or attacked and closed or destroyed or burnt since January 2021 is also estimated to be around 300 with at least ten priests or pastors abducted or killed by the jihadists.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law \u2014 which uses \u201cdirect contacts with the victims, eyewitnesses, media tracking, review of credible local and international reports, interviews and closed sources\u201d to track violence against Christians \u2014 pointed to the government\u2019s lax handling of the crisis as a factor that encourages increased violence.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Particularly in northern Nigeria, the jihadists allegedly \u201coperate freely under the cover and protection of the security forces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As detailed by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/heartcrymissionary.com\/\"><span>HeartCry Missionary Society<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 an American ministry that supports several dozen pastors in Africa \u2014 Nigeria is \u201cdivided roughly in half between Muslims, who live mostly in the north, and Christians, who live mostly in the south. The nation has \u201cthe world\u2019s fifth-largest Muslim population and sixth-largest Christian population,\u201d leading to \u201cheavy persecution of Christians by Muslims in northern Nigeria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 3,462 Christians have been killed by Islamic militants in Nigeria this year.The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law \u2014 a Nigeria-based nonprofit \u2014 reports that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}