❓WHAT HAPPENED: A report has revealed that 100 churches are destroyed in Nigeria every month, and an average of 32 Christians are killed per day.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Jihadist organizations, including Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen, are responsible for the attacks.
📍WHEN & WHERE: Since 2009, across various regions in Nigeria.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Unless something serious and urgent is done, there will be no traces of Christianity in Nigeria in the next 50 to 100 years.” – Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chairman of the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety)
🎯IMPACT: Christianity in Nigeria faces an existential threat.
A report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) has revealed that a staggering 100 churches are destroyed each month in Nigeria, with a minimum of 7,087 Nigerian Christians murdered in the first 220 days of 2025—an average of 32 per day.
Intersociety’s report notes that a total of 19,100 churches have been attacked since 2009, when the jihadist Boko Haram group began its violent campaign against Christians. Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chairman of Intersociety, emphasized the dire situation for Christians in Nigeria, stating that without urgent action, Christianity could disappear from the country within 50 to 100 years.
“[I]t’s not only that many Christians… have fled the country and settled in different parts of the world, like Europe and America, but also the tens of thousands have been forced into being converted to Islam. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands, have been forcibly converted to Islam and thousands killed in the past 20-30 years,” he said in comments to Crux.
In response to this crisis, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025. This legislation aims to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern and maintain the designation of Boko Haram and Islamic State-West Africa as entities of concern.
“It is long past time to impose real costs on the Nigerian officials who facilitate these activities and my Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act uses new and existing tools to do exactly that,” Cruz said, noting that “Nigerian Christians are being targeted and executed for their faith by Islamist terrorist groups, and are being forced to submit to sharia law and blasphemy laws across Nigeria.”
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