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State in Nigeria
Christians in Nigeria are being killed for a mix of reasons: jihadist and extremist campaigns that target communities in the north and northeast, localized communal and pastoral conflicts—often involv...
Yes — multiple credible reports and datasets show that large numbers of Christians have been killed in Nigeria in recent years, driven by Islamist insurgency, communal violence between herders and far...
There is no clear, verifiable count in the supplied reporting for how many Christians were killed in the country of Niger in 2024; the material instead concentrates on killings of Christians in Nigeri...
Since 2015 there is no single, verifiable tally of how many Christians have been killed in Nigeria; credible reports and NGOs produce widely divergent figures that range from several thousand per year...
Most reporting and advocacy groups say attacks on Christian communities are concentrated in northern Nigeria and the central “Middle Belt,” with repeated attacks in states such as Borno, Benue, Platea...
UN and Amnesty International reporting on violence in Nigeria describes large-scale, lethal insecurity affecting communities across the country, but both agencies and other human-rights monitors empha...
Between 2015 and 2024, multiple reports and commentators advanced claims that Christians in Nigeria suffered what some called a , citing high numbers of killings, abductions, and attacks on churches; ...
The Fulani herder–farmer violence in central Nigeria is driven by overlapping environmental stress (desertification and changing transhumance routes), competition over land and water amid weak land go...
The period 2020–2024 saw repeated, documented attacks on religious communities in Nigeria characterized by including Islamist insurgents (Boko Haram/ISWAP), Fulani-associated militias, and criminal ba...
The assembled analyses converge on a central finding: , especially in the North‑Central, Southern Kaduna, Benue and Plateau areas . At the same time, credible reporting and analysts emphasize that the...
The available, analyzed sources do not provide a single, authoritative count of how many attacks on Christians occurred in Nigeria in 2023 and 2024; official tallies are absent and public datasets cit...
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International document continuing, violent abuses by Boko Haram in 2025 that include suicide bombings, mass killings, forced marriage, trafficking, and attacks on civili...
The reports describe multiple village raids across Benue state in 2025 with widely varying civilian casualty figures: . Key sources include Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, local Nigerian...
The materials reviewed make a strong, consistent claim that thousands of Christians were killed in Nigeria across 2024–2025, with Benue, Plateau, and parts of Kaduna repeatedly singled out as heavily ...
Available reports and briefings claim that several Nigerian states — most prominently and — experienced large numbers of deadly attacks against Christians in 2025, with aggregated tallies of victims c...
The record shows credible, contemporaneous reporting of violent raids, mass kidnappings, and village attacks across Nigeria’s Middle Belt and northwest in 2025, with multiple instances tied to Kaduna,...
The available reports indicate a severe, widescale surge in violence targeting Christians across multiple Nigerian states in 2025, involving massacres, kidnappings, and mass displacements that some ob...