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53,350 Christians killed since the Islamic uprising in July 2009, with 31,350 of those deaths occurring from June 2015 to May 2023. [41] The killings have been referred to as a silent genocide. [42] [43] [44] Persecution of Christians in Nigeria is pervasive and ongoing. "Christians are also routinely denied land to build churches.
On 12 May 2022, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student, was stoned to death by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto, Nigeria, after being accused of blasphemy against Islam. [3] The muslim suspects arrested were charged with "Criminal conspiracy and incitement of public disturbance", bailable offences with a maximum 2 year ...
Today, religious violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko Haram insurgency, which aims to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria. [50] Since the turn of the 21st century, 62,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed by the terrorist group Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and other groups. [48] [49] The killings have been referred to as a silent ...
A Christian mother in Nigeria was acquitted of blasphemy charges after being imprisoned for condemning the mob murder of a Nigerian Christian student.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) gave the Nigerian police 14 days ultimatum to undergo further investigations pertaining to her murder and bring the perpetrators to book. [5] [4] Her death case remains unresolved. [13]
Nigerian military attacked the village of Odi, as part of the Conflict in the Niger Delta. 2000 Kaduna riots: 2000-02-21 to 2000-05-23 Kaduna: 2,000 [12] [13] –5,000 [14] Religious riots between Christians and Muslims over the introduction of sharia law in Kaduna State, start of the religious riots phase of the Sharia conflict in Nigeria ...
[17] [18] Many of the dead bodies at the church had been taken by their family members to a private burial at home, indicating a higher death toll. [16] [a] On 9 June the government revised its death toll to at least 40, saying that 61 injured survivors were still in the hospital. [18] [20] Another wounded victim died of his injuries later on. [21]
As the attacks occurred around Okene, on the border between Nigeria's mostly Christian south and mostly Muslim north, they were described as "worrying" for religious tensions in Nigeria. Security forces were deployed to the area [ 9 ] and national police chief Mohammed Abubakar ordered 24-hour surveillance on all churches and mosques in Kogi ...