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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...
There is no single, authoritative count of “how many Islamist terrorist attacks have there been” in the sources provided; databases and analyses count attacks differently and focus on specific years, ...
The claim that "52,000 Christians have been murdered in Nigeria" is supported by a specific report claiming , but the figure is contested and not universally corroborated by other reporting or by Nige...
Available sources do not provide a clear, global, year-by-year tally of homicides "attributable to religiously motivated violence" split between Muslims and Christians since 2000; reporting instead of...
The available materials show competing claims about whether , with some actors asserting large Christian death tolls in 2025 while analysts and datasets indicate many victims are Muslim in Nigeria’s p...
Executive Summary The available analyses show that . At the same time, independent reporting and research emphasize that the violence arises from a mix of drivers—land and resource competition, crimin...
Both Christians and Muslims in Nigeria were repeatedly targeted by extremist violence between 2020 and 2024, and available reporting and datasets do not support a simple claim that one faith was consi...
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...
The claim that Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria is supported by multiple reports documenting targeted attacks, killings, kidnappings and legal discrimination against Christians, but the situ...
Available reporting shows wide disagreement about counts of Christians killed or displaced in Nigeria 2015–2024: NGO and media tallies range from tens of thousands over multi‑year periods to single‑ye...
Nigeria’s federal government has consistently denied that it is facilitating or tolerating targeted violence against Christians in 2025, framing rising communal violence as driven by rather than relig...
Boko Haram remains a significant actor in the persecution of Christians in Nigeria in 2025, conducting lethal attacks on Christian communities and destroying churches in northeastern states, while bro...
No single figure can be produced from the materials supplied: none of the reviewed documents claim a comprehensive, verified count of . The sources instead document episodic killings, regional pattern...
The available materials do not provide a reliable, single figure for how many Christians Boko Haram has killed in Nigeria since 2015; the reports offer rather than a clear, Boko Haram–specific total ....
Multiple recent reports and articles document widespread attacks on Christian communities and repeated destruction of churches in Nigeria, but . Older aggregated claims calculate thousands of churches...
Available analyses present sharply divergent figures for how many churches Boko Haram and allied jihadist groups have destroyed in Nigeria, with depending on source and counting method. The most promi...
Available sources show that Islamist extremist groups have been responsible for large numbers of deaths in several majority-Muslim countries (for example, the claim that 83% of attacks and 90% of deat...
Nigeria is experiencing significant lethal violence that includes attacks on Christian communities, but the situation is complex: credible watchdogs and reports document numerous killings and displace...
The available analyses show a consistent accusation that the Nigerian government has facing killings, kidnappings, and attacks, while the government itself publicly rejects religiously motivated expla...
Since 2000, the deadliest non‑Islamist extremist violence has come from three broad categories: far‑right/white‑supremacist movements (notably in the United States and Europe), ethno‑nationalist and s...