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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...
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...
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 ....
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...
Reporting and advocacy groups offer several overlapping explanations for why some Fulani militants attack Christian communities in Nigeria: competition over land and pastoral routes, political impunit...
The preponderance of available reports indicates , with some analysts saying Fulani-associated attackers killed more civilians than Boko Haram/ISWAP combined between 2019–2023 . In 2025 multiple organ...
Claims that a “Christian genocide” is occurring in Nigeria rest on multiple reports of large numbers of Christian casualties and targeted attacks on farming communities, but official Nigerian response...
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...
The conflicts between Fulani herders and predominantly Christian farming communities in Nigeria are ; they are driven chiefly by competition over land, water and grazing rights, while ethnicity and re...
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; ...
Fulani herder–farmer clashes and Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgency both contributed to attacks on Christian communities in 2024–2025, but they operate in different theatres and with different motives: . Pol...
There is clear and repeated reporting that large numbers of Christians in Nigeria have been killed in recent years by Islamist militants, armed gangs and violent herder groups, and some advocacy group...
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 Nigerian government under President Bola Tinubu has publicly condemned sectarian and communal mass killings and ordered security operations and relief, while the military has carried out widesprea...
Legal scholars, international monitors and major news organisations cited in available reporting do not treat the killings in Nigeria as an established, state-led genocide; groups such as ACLED say ab...
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...
International human rights groups document violence against Christians in Nigeria using incident-level data collection, mapping, and narrative reporting that highlight attacks by non-state actors and ...
Targeted attacks on Christians in Nigeria are linked to Islamist militant groups, notably and the , but those groups are not the only perpetrators; communal violence involving Fulani herders and local...
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...